Word: impost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seizing loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined. In Paris, for example, heralds on horseback would announce yet another impost, then gallop for their lives. Violent revolts by commoners troubled both France and England...
...consumers of natural gas and electricity in order to save even more fuel. Under one idea now being considered in Simon's agency, consumption in excess of a certain amount-perhaps 85% of what was used during a base period last year-would be subjected to a heavy impost...