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Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court giveth. Sometimes it taketh away. Last week it did both when it looked at the pestiferous question of pornography. First it concluded that the city of Indianapolis had acted unconstitutionally when it sought to prohibit some pornography as a form of discrimination against women. Then the next day the court ruled that cities or towns are free to use zoning ordinances to confine adult-movie theaters to the fringes of towns...
...offers the full range of financial services. When bills come due, however, the bank is nobody's patsy. Says Personal Banking Counselor Milli Laughlin: "We are not lacking astute banking principles. This is a business and you have to operate in a businesslike manner." After all, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...
...Plan E"--a city manager form of government with a weak mayor, citywide elections, and an incredibly complicated "proportional representation" system of voting. They lost their first campaign in 1938 but won in 1940 (perhaps aided by Mayor John L. Lyons, who--once asked about snowplows--said "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.") The first few Plan E elections established the power of the Cambridge Civic Association and the Brattle St. Old Cantabrigians...
...herd giveth and the herd taketh away...
...expense-account deductions. Businessmen are unsure of not only what the effects would be on their companies, but also whether Congress will enact the proposals favorable to them as well as those that are not. Their view, observes Washington University Professor Murray Weideribaum, is that on taxes "the feds giveth, and the feds taketh away...