Word: exemption
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...requires that the construction or operation of any new nuclear power plant or disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste be examined by the legislature to insure that it meets certain standards, and then be approved by a majority of voters at a statewide election. The law would exempt storage or disposal facilities for wastes generated by medical or bio-research, as well as facilities that had received all needed government approvals poor to August...
President Kemeny's policies, then, provide the backdrop against which The Dartmouth Review was formed, Incidentally, not even he was exempt from personal attacks by the Review: the paper ran an advertisement in which it supposedly sponsored a "Take a Homosexual to Lunch" program, featuring a picture of former President Kemeny eating lunch with a Dartmouth student...
When billions of dollars are at stake, even the most reserved of bankers and brokers start chasing after customers. Last week marked the first anniversary of the beginning of the much ballyhooed All Savers program. Thus as some $31 billion worth of the one-year, tax-exempt savings certificates began to come due this month in banks and savings and loan associations around the country, it was no surprise that moneymen were in hot pursuit of all that cash...
...many of its best practitioners were once abstract painters, converted in midcareer. Philip Pearlstein, Sidney Tillim, Alfred Leslie, William Bailey: they all came, in one way or another, out of abstract expressionism, making the change not from opportunism-15 or 20 years ago, practically no collectors or museums were exempt from the tyranny of abstract art-but out of a sense of lost engagement with the physical world and a hunger to recomplicate the game. Yet the past leaves its genetic code in the present work. And of no American realist painter is this truer than Neil Welliver...
Thousands of children who live in or near military bases across the nation routinely attend nearby public schools. However, their parents, as federal employees, may be exempt from paying the local taxes that support the school districts. For over a century, the U.S. Government has at least partially reimbursed the districts for the cost of educating the children by providing what is called Impact Aid. Now, that is dwindling sharply. In the past two years, the Reagan Administration's domestic spending cuts have included about a 40% reduction in federal Impact Aid, from $762 million in fiscal...