Word: quarrels
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States on the paying end do not quarrel with this concept, just its exorbitant execution. "These taxes no longer relate to the depletion of a state's resources,'' says Richard McClure, an aide to Illinois Governor Jim Thompson. "Energy-rich states are now exporting their tax burdens around the country." A study by the Commerce Department shows that nine states depend heavily on severance-tax income to run their governments. In Louisiana, 23% of the 1978 state budget came from these taxes; in Wyoming, 22%; in Alaska and New Mexico, 19%; and in Texas...
...billion Atlantic Richfield Co.; of wounds received when he and his wife were shotgunned to death by their son David, 14; in Dallas. Police speculated that David, an honor student at the exclusive St. Mark's School of Texas, may have killed his parents during a quarrel over his expulsion from an amusement park the previous day on suspicion of shoplifting...
...bitter quarrel over an embattled exile's testimony...
Initial reviews of Timerman's memoir were generally favorable. Now, however, an increasingly acrimonious quarrel has erupted over Timerman's testimony, involving prominent U.S. intellectuals and leaders of both the Argentine and American Jewish communities. In part, the arguments have arisen because of Timerman's political impact. On U.S. television, he has criticized President Reagan's low-key human rights policy and the Administration's efforts to improve relations with Argentina's military dictatorship. Last month Timerman was a silent but nonetheless potent presence at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Reagan...
...faithful himself, he did not ask fidelity from others. He once caught a friend in his wife's bedroom, and, instead of starting the usual tiresome scene, invited him to spend the night. The next morning he shook the man's hand. "Shall two old friends quarrel about a woman," he asked, "even when she's a lawful wife?" Like a good father, he gave his discarded loves to his son, but Dumas fils eventually complained about the hand-me-downs: "You know, Father, it's a great bore, you always giving me your old mistresses...