Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu of the local property taxes that the base or the soldiers living there, if they were civilians, would have paid...
...family has asked that donations in lieu of flowers be sent in her memory to the Bryn Mawr Book Sale, 373 Huron Ave., Cambridge...
Members of Massachusetts Fair Share, a citizens' action group, demonstrated in the Yard in an attempt to convince the University to double the payments it makes to the City of Boston each year in lieu of taxes. Although Harvard is legally tax exempt, it pays the city $2 million each year to cover tax payments on some of its larger real estate holdings; the citizens' group wanted the University to up the rate to $5.3 million. After failing in an attempt to meet with President Bok--University police officers informed the protestors that "nobody's home" when they came calling...
Many Cambridge residents regard the University as being in the real estate business for profit. Although most rents are at the market level, Harvard owns an estimated $8 million worth of tax-exempt property in Cambridge, and makes a $507,000 in-lieu-of-tax payment. The situation in Boston is similar, except that Harvard pays no in-lieu-of-tax payment there and the value of exempt property is twice as high--an estimated $16 million. Harvard has not yet decided whether the corporation will handle Boston properties. The most publicized complaints, from Boston Fair Share and Cambridge community...
What's worse is Buffett's recycling in lieu of new ideas. Like "Cowboy in the Jungle" from the new album. It's a vagabond expatriate song with a couple of funny lines, but he did the same idea much better last year in his cover of Steve Good-man's "Banana Republics." And the title cut from Son of a Son of a Sailor is almost a bibliography of the half-dozen sailing paeans he's written before...