Word: lesses
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...released last January shows that while almost half of the money for the tax credit would go to families in the $10,00 to $25,00 range, as much as 37 per cent would go to those earning over that amount and only 13 per cent to families earning less. The Opportunity Act provides bigger grants to a more narrowly-defined group. Sixty-four per cent of the money added to the BEOG program would go to families with incomes of $15,000 to $25,000 with the rest going to families earning less...
Perhaps one of the most interesting features of the majority decision in the case of "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" was Justice Powell's praise of Harvard's undergraduate admissions program as a model for fair, non-discriminatory and most importantly quota-less affirmative action in university admissions. Justice Powell praised Harvard's use of the concept of "diversity" or weighting race as simply one of the many factors in an attempt to create a truly heterogenous student body and found that this sort of unspecified methodology was constitutional while the use of strict quotas...
...been suggested that an admissions program which considers race only as one factor is simply a subtle and more sophisticated--but no less effective--means of according racial preference than the Davis program. A facial intent to discriminate, however, is evident in petitioner's [UCDavis] preference and not denied in this case. No such facial infirmity exists in an admission program where race or ethnic background is simply one element... in the selection process...
...NLRB and the union, in their briefs to the court, however, remain skeptical of this argument. They point out that according to a survey of cafeteria use, less than 2 per cent of users of the cafeteria were the patients at Beth Israel, while at least 77 per cent of the users were employees. They also argued in their briefs that the cafeteria was physically removed by a corridor from the main lobby of the hospital, and that the hospital administration often used the cafeteria to distribute literature of its own, including the employee newsletter, which represented the management point...
...towns in Massachusetts assess all property at 100 per cent of its fair market value. This practice, Corrigan said, doubles or triples taxes on homeowners, and falls particularly hard on those with fixed incomes. If passed the Classification Amendment would make it constitutional for cities to assess property at less than full market value, and would also allow them to use different rates for different classes of property, such as private household, industrial and commercial property...