Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD first agreed to pay in lieu of tax payments to the city in 1928. At that time the university agreed to continue to pay the taxes on the new land it acquired on a decreasing basis for 20 years. So as Harvard bought up additional land--and removed it from the tax rolls--Cambridge would receive an increasingly smaller payment on that land. This was initiated by both Harvard and the city to help ease the impact any large purchases by the University would have on the city tax revenues...
...less pronounced than the similarities, which is not too surprising considering that the members choose each other. All of the members attended prep school. All of them have the kinds of flexible and well-paying jobs which allow them to schedule the lengthy meetings for which they receive no payment, other than expenses. And all of them are leaders, active in business, community and educational affairs...
...that they will need later; they fear that the Government will eventually move to a sterner anti-inflation policy that will create a credit shortage. In the week ending April 3, business borrowings in New York alone hit $736 million, the biggest total ever in a non-tax-payment period...
Other criticism focuses on the U.F.W.A.'s poorly run medical benefits program. Farm Worker Concepción Garcia claims that when she tried to collect a $300 maternity payment from the U.F.W.A., "I was told that I was ineligible because the grower I work for was a thief. I complained, and finally the person in the union office said I could have the money if I would steal his books...
...first time that Harvard agreed to make this kind of payment to Boston, although it has been making similar payments to Cambridge since...