Word: repeals
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...University's strongest legal bulwark was swept away last weekend. The battle to repeal Harvard's zoning exemption was by no means a rout; traditionally, churches and schools have been excused not only from taxes but from zoning as well, allowed to expand, build and demolish where they please. Cambridge, pointing to maps showing the city with more than 50 per cent of its land institutionally-owned, won the right to limit institutional conversion of property two years ago. That privilege came with only one string--Harvard was not to be included. The men who wrote the state's constitution...
...Harvard cooperated, he threatened, the Bay State's would be. Unnerved by the thought of a statewide referendum on the question of special protection for the University, with the attendant spotlight on its sins past and present, Harvard bit the bullet and decided not to lobby against the exemption repeal when it appeared in the legislature this year...
Miller nonetheless opposes a Senate move to repeal the President's authority to ask the Reserve Board to impose credit controls, on the ground that controls could still be needed in an inflationary emergency. Congress itself is all but hopelessly hung up in a battle about how much to increase military spending, and how far to cut social services, in the budget for fiscal 1981, which starts Oct. 1. Congress and Carter insist that inflation must be fought by producing a budget that would be balanced if there were only a mild recession-even though the deep recession...
...problem with varying degrees of concern for their students. In addition to the letter Mayer and Bok signed, Mayer sent a letter to The New York Times last December, soon after Carter first announced his policy, saying that the action "insults and attacks" the students, and calling for repeal of the measure. Mayer also promised that Tufts will furnish legal aid to its students and is prepared to pursue any kind of legal action on their behalf if it will help them to remain in the U.S. But since the Supreme Court has already declared that the U.S. is under...
...told the city that we would live by the red line until a new community report is issued and we intend to stick by our word," Lewis A. Armistead, director of community relations says. "Since we've always lived by the zoning, ordinances, the repeal of the constitutional exemption won't really affect us," he adds...