Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been accepted that the Government doesn't collect income taxes from mobsters; the indigent cannot be expected to pay, nor can welfare recipients. And now we have to swallow the bitter pill of knowing that the wealthy do not have to pay taxes either. I'm disgusted...
...government's Empresa Petrolera Fiscal is operating IPC's Talara refinery with Mexican assistance, and is ripping down Esso gas-station signs in favor of its own brand name Petroperu. Nor does the Nixon Administration quibble with the reimbursement-at $71 million-that Peru is willing to pay. But the U.S. firmly opposes the blue-sky figure of $690 million that Velasco insists is owed Peru for 44 years of oil theft, and against which he is determined to apply whatever reimbursement IPC is finally allowed. Says Lawyer John N. Irwin, who has been representing...
Research has turned scholars into entrepreneurs, switching their loyalty from universities to the Government or corporations that pay the bills. As universities raid one another's top scholars, the stars take their research grants with them, as well as their close colleagues. Where faculty members were once devoted to their university, many now focus on their own movable fiefdoms. Worse for students, they view mere teaching as an onerous chore. Graduate students do most undergraduate teaching, while top professors shuttle to Washington to advise men in power...
...into License. Just now, Newhall is defying the city of San Francisco to throw him in jail for putting his mouth where his money should be. At issue is a new local ordinance requiring businesses-including newspapers-to pay a tax on their gross receipts, whether they are profitable or not. Such taxes are not unprecedented; they exist in more than half the states. Still, Newhall protests on the grounds that "this tax is a license, and therefore becomes, in effect, a jurisdictional regulation of the press, which has been prohibited by both the United States Constitution and the California...
Well-known works such as Penrose's are difficult for a gang to sell locally. However, insurance companies, who will have to pay for the stolen paintings, usually offer small "rewards" for information leading to their recovery-and no questions asked. Police can never prove that a deal has been made-but they are no longer surprised by anonymous tips telling them to look for the paintings behind some garage and finding them unharmed. Penrose has told his insurance company he will brook no subrosa ransoms, even though his paintings were insured for only...