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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the proposal, institutions would be charged $0.94 per cubic foot of water, while single families would be taxed at $0.81. Commercial users would pay $0.85 per cubic foot and industrial users...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Council Questions Water Plan | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...match for their children. But what is becoming more common in the U.S. is the gold-card matchmaker for the affluent among those 43 million unmarried Americans between 18 and 44. "Across America," says San Francisco matchmaker Barbara Tackett, "there are people making $35,000 a year who will pay $3,500 to a matchmaker without blinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Make Me a Perfect Match | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...that politics and the SSC do not go hand in hand. But the real battle, which has barely begun, will concern not the machine's location but whether it should be built at all. The Reagan Administration says it should, but that means little unless Congress is willing to pay the bills on an ongoing basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Controversial Prize for Texas | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...Stunned by their rejection, Kulas wound up with a firm that charges $4,600 a year to insure the Porsche and her husband's BMW. Says she: "This is outrageous. We're being penalized just because we have nice cars. We could buy another one for the amount we pay in insurance every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Head-On Collision: California auto-insurance rate revolt | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...time may be ripe. Since 1983, auto-insurance premiums have climbed three times as fast as the inflation rate. Among the causes: bad roads, rising medical costs and growing traffic congestion. In New Jersey, where drivers pay the highest average rates in the U.S., a group of consumers pounded a car with a sledgehammer last February to demonstrate their rage. Each state regulates insurance separately, a practice that contributes to wide price differences from place to place. Several Midwestern states have been able to control insurance costs to some degree by passing strong no-fault laws, under which drivers file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Head-On Collision: California auto-insurance rate revolt | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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