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...real outrage came with the wild inflation in the housing market in the late '70s, The property tax, as Kuttner explains clearly, is the product of the tax assessor's judgement of how much the house is worth times the tax rate. When the assessors began to raise their estimates on home values in line with inflation, the taxes people actually paid went haywire even though the government had not raised the rates. Because of the reforms that took power away from the assessors, "as housing prices doubled and then doubled again, the local assessor could only feed the inflating...
...unanimous decision to suspend judgement on Nagy's plan came after Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, told the committee that the number of students taking make-up exams has increased throughout the Ivy League, "so we're not in bad shape...
...star billing in the strip. His broad and timeless appeal lay in his simplicity and in his embodiment of a universal revenge fantasy. As his creator Segar put it: "I'd like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination and let the sailor do the scrapping." Of course, Popeye never used force unjustifiably. "Treat ever' body right and if they steps on ya, sock 'em!" was his motto. The comic strip did not glorify but rather burlesqued violence, turning...
...their disapproval of its procedures and to protest the blatantly political nature of the motives behind its creation. Administrators have tinkered with some details of CRR's workings in response to student pressure, but the group's essential purpose remains unchanged: to co-opt some students into sitting in judgement on their peers for their political actions. Reform from within cannot alter that, and reforms alone will not improve a group with such an abhorrent purpose. Abolition, not reform, is CRR's deserved fate...
Responding to a question about the effect of divestment on the apartheid regime, Suzman said, "It's ultimately a moral judgement. But it will have no effect even if everyone pulls out. If Ford sells, someone else will...