Word: iowa
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Death and taxes may be two great inevitabilities, but they are usually thought to be mutually exclusive. Kenneth Swenka, 48, a farmer in North Liberty, Iowa, found otherwise after the death of his three-year-old German shepherd, Lobo. When Swenka went to pay his county property taxes, he learned that they included a $1 levy on Lobo. Swenka told the authorities that the dog was dead, but was informed that since the tax had already been officially registered, he would have to pay. He reluctantly agreed. Then he found out that by Iowa...
Frederick J. Miller Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...National Committee is expected to approve at an April meeting, was the recommendation that all delegate selection take place within a period of 14 weeks or less-from the second Tuesday in March to the second Tuesday in June. That would delay, and downgrade in symbolic importance, Iowa's January delegate caucus, where Jimmy Carter first won national attention in 1976. To help build a party consensus, the commission further recommended that no candidate be awarded convention delegates unless he had received at least 15% of the vote cast in caucuses or state elections during the first third...
Nearly all Connection staffers would clearly prefer to have their old jobs back. Yet both the State Journal, owned by Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa, and the locally owned Capital Times have hired permanent replacements for some strikers, and negotiations to end the dispute are at an impasse...
...Chevymobile owners living in the 44 states $200 in cash each, or about $120 more than the estimated difference in value between Chevy and other engines. The company will also give each car owner a transferable three-year or 36,000-mile warranty. The legal officers of California, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee refused to accept the settlement, presumably because they still hope to collect fines and get more for car owners in their states by pressing their suits. It is quite likely, however, that the U.S. district court in Chicago will both approve the settlement and rule that...