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...fail to reflect the very real environmental costs of pumping carbon dioxide into the air. The answer is a tax on CO2 emissions -- or a CO2 user fee, if that is a more palatable term. The fee need not raise a country's overall tax burden; it could be offset by reductions in income taxes or other levies...
Other freshmen include Buffy Hansen, Ceci Clark, Sarah Colt, Ginny Simonds and Lauren Messmore. Co-Captain Julia Trotman thinks this strong incoming class will offset the loss of last year's seven seniors...
...tobacco industry has similar worries: that either party might resort to raising the national cigarette tax, which has already gone up from 8 cents a pack to 16 cents in the past five years. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco channeled $100,000 to the Republican Party, but that was offset when a Reynolds tobacco heir, Smith Bagley, donated $100,000 to the Democrats. "Many big corporations give both parties $100,000," says a Republican fund raiser...
Make purposeful use of capitals, underlining, positioning, and spacing. If you use a typed resume, have it reproduced by photo-offset. Beware of using too small type or reducing a typed resume, as you may also reduce your readership. Use white or ecru paper with matching envelopes and paper for your cover letters. Don't use bright-colored paper - it will overshadow your message and is more likely to land in the waste basket...
This exclusion, so painfully obvious on Harvard's campus, is clearly not what the BSA stands for, by any means. The BSA is, rather, a support group, whose purpose is to offset the nonacceptance of Harvard Blacks which the final clubs themselves choose to play a part...