Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name itself, Rolling Meadows, is redolent of Elysium. For its taxpayers, Rolling Meadows, Ill., is heaven: the city property tax has been abolished. The small (pop. 19,000) Chicago suburb is a beneficiary of an Illinois law that allows municipalities to collect a portion of state sales tax on goods billed within the community. With the $1.2 million collected each year on the sales of products of such corporate neighbors as Western Electric and Hallicrafters, which have sales offices there, Rolling Meadows does better than make ends meet...
What galled some opposition M.P.s about the raise was that the Queen's allowance, which is paid from the "civil list" and is intended to defray her official expenditures, represents only a small portion of her total income, none of which is taxed. In addition to the allowance, she has the use of the "privy purse," about $750,000 a year in revenues from the Duchy of Lancaster, lands that Henry III seized from two rebellious barons in 1265. This revenue pays for the Queen's personal expenditures as head of state, including clothing (about $75,000 worth...
...marriage of Joachim and Anne; below, the priests of the temple refusing Anne and Joachim's offering. Right panel: above, the meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate; below, the commissioning of Mary as a serving maiden in the temple. In the upper portion of the center panel, angels lament above Anne's deathbed as Joachim mourns in a chair near by. Below, the newborn Christ in the arms of Mary, while servants bring swaddling linen...
...first is a doubt that the people of Azad Kashmir, as the Pakistani portion is called, would welcome control by India; in that case, India could be confronted with an embarrassing uprising...
...silk route" highway from Sinkiang province to the city of Gilgit in Pakistani Kashmir with an all-weather macadam motor highway running down to the northern region of Ladakh near the cease-fire line. Should Indian troops get anywhere near China's highway or try to grasp its portion of Kashmir, New Delhi could expect to have a has sle with Peking on its hands...