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Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taypayers Foundation, a business-friendly research organization, said that the debate over taxation of large nonprofit institutions is a perennial local issue, but rarer on the state level...
...says. He picks up an issue of mid-90s superhero comic “Spawn” and points at it. “They’ll come to the convention and sell issues like this for maybe fifty cents.” Even the rarer ones, like the “World’s Finest” issue, wouldn’t catch much at auction due to wear and tear.But that’s not really the point. Private collections might be this comprehensive, but this collection is one that’s open...
From 1945 to '82, there were nine recessions in the U.S. That's about one every four years. Since then, the downturns have become rarer and shallower. This would be the first since 2001, and before that, there hadn't been one since 1991. The move from manufacturing toward a less volatile services-dominated economy is one explanation. A more competent Federal Reserve is another. The trade-off has been that postrecession recoveries have been more muted than those of yore, while prerecession angst has, if anything, grown...
...kind of moving up," says Katz. "We've decided there's this category we've named 'high luxury.' It's even more luxurious, more unique, harder to get. We want to sit at the top of the luxury mountain," she says. "We're pushing higher, to find that even rarer...
...miracle." The Buffalo Bills defender had crumpled after a seemingly routine tackle during a Sunday game. Doctors quickly ran an ice-cold saline solution through his body--a relatively new treatment to prevent spinal swelling. That may have saved him from lifelong paralysis. These types of injuries are much rarer now since high schools and colleges prohibited head-first tackles in 1976. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Football injuries resulting in quadriplegia- high school, college and professional ? '76 --34 ? '84 -- 5 ? '91 -- 1 (Mike Utley, Detroit Lions...