Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the increase in the residential rate, more taxpayers will see a decrease than an increase in their assessed values, according to the report. "For FY 1990, residential property owners as a class will pay a lower percentage of the total tax levy than they have at any point in the City's history," Healy wrote. Healy noted that two out of three local tax dollars spent by Cambridge will come from commercial property owners this fiscal year...
...former public-interest staffers point out that the office was the only one at the Law School to provide career counseling as well as placement information. Students interested in public-interest opportunities need more than just application information as they choose to enter a field with substantially lower salaries and fewer well-known opportunities than the corporate route...
While the professor talks about the government's propaganda efforts, his face becomes heavy. His brooding eyes are cast downward, his mouth grows sulky. But not because of the coffee, which he insists is "quite good." What causes the professor to lower his voice to a drone is the presence, at the next table, of a local Communist official. "They say he is honest," says the professor. "They say that he doesn't have a crooked bone in his body. Maybe so, but I am certain those bones are held together by crooked...
...public liked it. When Berlin died last week at 101, he was the nation's most beloved songwriter, a Russian Jewish immigrant born Israel Baline, who rose from Cherry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side to pride of place on Tin Pan Alley. Berlin's song is ended. But each time someone gazes up at blue skies, or wonders how deep is the ocean, or says it with music, his melodies linger...
Restoring a lower tax rate for capital gains would reverse a major part of the 1986 tax overhaul, generally recognized as the biggest domestic achievement of the Reagan administration. That law cut tax rates across the board, but ended special treatment for capital gains and reduced or ended such deductions as state sales taxes and Individual Retirement Accounts...