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Even the most optimistic budgetary scenario presented to the Cambridge City Council finance committee last night calls for a property tax levy at about the legal maximum and no new spending initiatives...
Since this process is not organized by competitive bid, however, the rates charged are only subject to the maximum rate charge established by the Public Works Department. A car towed out of a Harvard lot will cost the owner $60 on average for towing costs--much more than if the car was towed off of a Cambridge Street...
...Security Council and return attention to stalled Middle East peace talks. In the first policy shift since their expulsion in December, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered to repatriate 101 of 396 Palestinians still stranded in southern Lebanon. The rest, Rabin said, could return after a maximum of one year instead...
...than 100-m.p.h. curve. The national rail service's new X2000 high-speed train began operating on the Washington-New York Metroliner route. The X2000 can go up to 155 m.p.h., but until it gets speed clearance from the Federal Railroad Administration, it will operate at the normal Metroliner maximum speed of 125 m.p.h. Still, it goes from D.C. to N.Y.C. in 2 hr. 40 min. -- 15 min. faster than conventional trains. Its secret: a hydraulic tilting system that helps it take curves 40% faster...
Proposals for changes in support level come to the Faculty Committee (which has student members) for discussion, though there have been no changes in the past few years because the program has been operating pretty much at the maximum of what can be done...