Word: marketed
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...most dramatic protest is in California, where 1.5 million people have signed petitions and forced a statewide vote to be held June 6 on Proposition 13, the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative. If approved, Jarvis-Gann would force all property to be reassessed at the market value that prevailed in 1975-76 and prevent local authorities from increasing the assessments in the future by more than 2% a year, at least until the property is sold. After that, the rate would be based on what the new owner paid. The amendment would produce an immediate cut of as much...
...Boston, that could be the case. More than half of the city's real estate belongs to tax-exempt institutions, such as churches and universities, and homeowners pay the nation's highest rate: a stunning 8½% of their property's market value. Typical of homes in some deteriorating neighborhoods is Diane Roberts' three-story wooden frame house in Dorchester. Its market value is only $17,500, yet she is paying $1,472 a year in taxes. These rates have moved some 12,000 Massachusetts homeowners to join a mostly blue-collar group called "Fair Share...
...local economy." This is simply untrue. As the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a Washington-based group that examines ethical implications of corporate investment, points out, U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa provide important strategic inputs to the South African government--for instance, they supply almost half the market for computers; a third of the country's motor vehicles; and over two-fifths of its petroleum. In these sectors and others, U.S. companies provide important military inputs and form the basis for much of the white-controlled apartheid economy. The companies provide crucial contacts with world markets, needed foreign exchange...
Riesman disagrees. He speaks of a "teach of perish" attitude in the tight academic job market that runs counter to the traditional complaints of "publish or perish...
...think it's abnormal because of the unbelievable tightness of the job market," says Wilcox. "The only question the junior faculty has is not how it's going, but 'why can't I be tenured...