Word: pers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slash the number of council members. In order to promote more competitive council elections, there should be fewer representatives from each house or Yard area. Instead of five from most house and six from the few biggest ones, there should be three council members per house, and four for the largest houses...
...past four years, out health insurance has gone up form $400,000 to $900,000," Argeros said, "and minimum pay has gone form $4 per hour to $5 per hour." He added that the Coop's expenses this year had risen faster than its sales...
...very worried about the future under Proposition 2-1/2," said Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf said, of a state regulation limiting the rate at which local governments increase residential taxes to 2-1/2 percent per year...
Take the existing federal gasoline tax. Anyone can understand it. At a flat 9.1 cents per gal., it's easy to collect and reasonably fair, since the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them. It also discourages things we want to discourage: dependence on foreign oil, the trade deficit, pollution and traffic. As taxes go, this one's a winner...
Daniel Fitzgerald, manager of Central CopyService, said he does not use recycled paperbecause it is 20 per cent more expensive than"virgin paper." But he added that no major paperhouse has ever offered him recycled products...