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Scenes of suburban serenity are offset by vignettes of urban depravity: Tyte drinking tea, chatting and gardening in Stone St. Martin is juxtaposed with Tyte turning tricks in a London parking lot. The most pathetic victims of his lies are the seduced shopgirl and his neglected daughter, the former sliding into alcoholism, the latter turning into a potentially dangerous sociopath like her father. Trevor has an uncanny understanding of love, delusion, hope and, in Tyte's case, the buried anger that "had driven him in search of presents." It is a tribute to the author's moral instincts...
...surges, the tax burden grows steadily heavier. Next year federal revenues will consume 22% of the gross national product, up from 18% in 1976. Carter's budget includes no personal tax relief in 1981 and only a token $9 billion cut in 1982. Even that reduction will not offset increases in Social Security levies that will boost individual taxes by some $16 billion during the same time period. But despite the higher taxes, the Carter Administration still opposed significant tax reduction. Said Carter: "I continue to believe that large inflationary individual income tax cuts are neither appropriate nor possible...
Before the city council meeting Monday, city officials and the Cambridge state legislative delegation held a joint press conference to discuss the tax package to offset Proposition 2 1/2, all components of which will require state approval...
...Cambridge City Council last night voted to ask the state legislature for permission to enact measures to offset the effects of Proposition 2 1/2 on the city...
Most institutions hope to offset this decline with stronger recruitment programs and more applications from women, minorities and part-time adult students, he added...