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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city be allowed to charge developers a fee of three dollars per square foot on new construction that exceeds 30,000 square feet in area. The money raised by these so-called "linkage" fees would be placed in a trust fund to help build housing for city residents with low-to-moderate incomes...
...assessed valuation. But because the district encompasses part of a tax-exempt Air Force base and lacks tony subdivisions, the tax rate translates into $3,596 per student. In the Santa Gertrude school district, located on the oil-rich King Ranch in south Texas, property taxes are low -- only 8 cents per $100 of assessed valuation -- but the total spent per student...
Zenith had expanded into computers to reduce its reliance on TVs, a business that low-cost foreign producers were beginning to dominate. The company bought the electronics-kit maker Heath in 1979 and expanded the division to include a line of laptop computers. Zenith's machines are now among the world's best sellers, bringing in about 60% of the company's revenues of $2.7 billion. With this deal, Bull will become the largest European-based computer maker...
...falls in the "self pay" -- often meaning "no pay" -- category. The most important government program, Medicaid, is available only to impoverished patients. As a result, those infected with the AIDS virus frequently must "spend down" into poverty, demonstrating that they hold assets of less than $2,000. This low level of federal coverage portends future problems, since the number of people with AIDS continues to rise. "Federal health planners have been acting as if AIDS will go away," says Congressman Henry Waxman of California...
...north, more than 20,000 Canadian vehicles are powered by compressed natural gas, which virtually eliminates the sources of smog. The relatively low price of the fuel -- some 80 cents per gal., vs. $1.75 for gasoline -- tempts bus and taxi owners to pay the $2,500 that it costs to convert a vehicle to natural gas. In Washington the American Gas Association calls the fuel "a viable option for fleets." One drawback: to carry the gas, vehicles must be fitted with bulky tanks. In a cross-border experiment, Canada's Ontario Bus Industries and Brooklyn Union Gas are testing...