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Other questionable shelters abound. Precious jewels can be donated to charity and then two or three times their presumed value deducted from the donor's income. Luxury cars can be bought ostensibly for business purposes and provide large tax savings. BMW once advertised itself as "the car that shelters you from boredom as well as taxes...
...Massachusetts, those precious delegates are chosen through dual system with "threshold levels" designed to prevent less popular candidates from winning delegates and accentuate the leads of the top vote-getters...
...press, which until Iowa had largely ignored Hart while focusing on Mondale and Glenn, immediately endowed the Coloradan's campaign with that most precious of campaign commodities, free media. Herds of reporters began trailing after Hart. The exposure was almost entirely uncritical, with Hart emerging as a beacon of new ideas. Glenn, meanwhile, had been banging away at Mondale, depicting him as the tool of special interests. Said a Glenn aide: "We almost played blocking back for Hart on this." While Glenn tried to bowl Mondale aside, Hart slipped cleanly through the hole...
...restrictions curtail liberty, though a kind of liberty he does not think is particularly worth having. The civil libertarian admits that a price of liberty is that it stands to be misused, and that pornography may be one of those misuses; public morality may suffer, but freedom is more precious. Both sides agree, however, that one cannot have everything and may sometimes have to trade one political good for another...
Blair, however, did not let his teammates' inability to score frustrate him. Instead, he took it as a challenge, a challenge to shut out the opposition, to give it nothing cheap to undermine the precious value of the few scores the Crimson did earn...