Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope to get 100 per cent of the house to sign the petition," Clayton A. Sure '80. said yesterday. He added that the signed petition would be sent to Monteville, Frank J. Weissbecker, director of food services, and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students...
...media had less to say about the 60 per cent of adults left illiterate, and the increasing income gap which made Iran one of the world's most unequal societies. Little was heard about the royal family's financial scandals and their heroin smuggling on a global scale...
...their wine to $20, to cover the $2 they will have to pay the government. The wine distributor then sells the Pinot Chardonnay to liquor store owners for $30 to absorb a $1 VAT. He has added $10 to the price of the wine and is taxed 10 per cent of this value. Finally, the retailer must charge $50 per case, to prevent the government's $2 value added tax from cutting into his profit margin. At a rate of 10 per cent, the VAT collects a total of $5 off a case of wine which eventually sells...
...insures that government will take larger chunks out of the earnings of lower and middle class citizens than out of the incomes of the rich. Representative Ullman tries to mitigate this inequity by taxing necessities such as food, housing and clothing at a rate of only 5 per cent. Yet this still raises the price of necessities for the poor, and it certainly doesn't permit the VAT to escape condemnation as a wholly regressive form of taxation...
...first half, Harvard did what it knew it had to do. Shoot. And not miss. The Crimson sank an awesome 63 per cent from the floor, while Texas conected only 42 per cent of the time...