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...would be the winners? Big vehicles like the new Dodge Mega Cab would have a relatively lenient standard of 21.3 m.p.g. And some of the largest guzzlers on the road, like the Hummer H2, would continue to be exempt because they are classified as commercial...
Because Harvard is an educational institution, much of its Cambridge real estate is tax-exempt. In lieu of taxes, the University customarily pays a voluntary sum to the city—which will amount to about $2.4 million...
...week's rollout of Clear Card, the first privately run prescreening security program. Customers who pay a $79.95 annual fee and submit to fingerprint and iris scanning--plus a background check by the Department of Homeland Security--can be ushered through a dedicated fast lane at airport security checkpoints, exempt from secondary searches. Verified Identity Pass Inc. is trying to reassure civil libertarians, who are concerned that the system could be used to spy on consumers, with a promise not to track cardholders' movements or sell their personal information. But the company, which relies on Lockheed Martin technology...
Dubai Healthcare City was designed as a “free zone” within Dubai, making investors exempt from laws that would otherwise place restrictions on the level of international ownership of firms and the ability of those firms to take their profits out of the country...
...view the tests as a violation of civil rights, is moving to curtail them. Last week, by 236 to 173, the House voted to prevent the general use of the tests by U.S. businesses. Polygraphs, said Montana Democrat Patrick Williams, "in effect require testifying against oneself." The ban would exempt employers such as nursing homes and companies working for U.S. intelligence agencies...