Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going up. Massachusetts already has the highest property taxes of any state, and the State Supreme Court's 1974 decision in the Sudbury case will make them even higher. The Sudbury decision enforced a state constitutional provision that requires assessment of all proerty at 100 per cent of its market value, instead of the long-time practice of assessing residential property at, say, 50 per cent, and business property, income-producing property, at 75 per cent...
...passed, Question 1 would allow the legislature to reinstitute variable assessments in four classes: residential, commercial, industrial and open space. The Massachusetts Mayors' Association proposes that residential property be assessed at 40 per cent of market value, commercial property at 50 per cent, industrial at 55 per cent, and open space at 25 per cent, with all residential parcels getting a $5000 exemption...
...peak of $233.70 an ounce. "We had not expected much," explained one Zurich foreign-exchange dealer about Carter's plan, "but neither had we expected so little." On hearing the news, Carter remarked rather tartly to his economic advisers: "I did everything you said would make the market go up?and it went down. What happened...
...Elvis from the waist down, and parents stood guard in the doorway of their children's vicarious ecstasy. Time has seen rock'n'roll co-opted, legitimized by anal retentive businessmen who learned how to turn the tide of rebellion into a tide of profits--to conceptualize, to market, to package, to target, to sell...
Fraser said free trade in the auto industry did not worry him. "American Auto companies have refused to compete in that market (for small cars). I refuse to believe the German and Japanese workers can produce a better car than...