Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning down increases at nearly twice the rate of five years ago. Last August, the California Supreme Court declared local property taxes unconstitutional-but for quite another reason (TIME, Sept. 13). The financial patchwork, the court said, allows communities with a high tax base to offer their children a richer education than poor communities-and to pay a smaller share of their income to do it. The quality of a child's education, said the court, should not depend on "the wealth of his parents and neighbors," and courts in Minnesota, Texas and New Jersey have subsequently agreed...
...front windshield. The city is dotted with half-completed construction projects, including the new capital buildings designed by U.S. Architect Louis Kahn. Some day, when and if they are completed, Dacca will find itself with a collection of public buildings that might well be the envy of many a richer and more established capital...
...most striking difference between the Concentus Musicus and other orchestras is the quality of sound: this group is completely different. The reason is the instruments: all are originals or reconstructions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century instruments. The strings have a far brighter sound, richer in harmonics than their modern counterparts. The string choir resembles a group of soloists rather than the modern symphony's big, anonymous cushion of sound. The woodwinds are changed from the way we know them: the oboes and bassoons, like the strings, are sharper and brighter; the flute is much softer. The brass is an entirely...
...will go up a total of 17% against the dollar. American farmers stand to reap some of the biggest gains. For example, about half the Midwest soybean crop and 85% of the winter wheat grown in Washington State is sold to foreigners. Farmers look forward to still richer sales abroad now that they can drop their foreign-currency prices...
...years, middle-class parents of school-age children have fled the cities to inviting suburbs, to take advantage of their superior school systems. They were better because the property was richer there, and the property taxes that support most school systems produced more money for better buildings, better teachers, better facilities. Poorer districts in the cities simply could not compete. Incomes were lower, property values were lower and there were far more kids crowded into far less space. Even if tax rates were raised to the limit, the resulting income could not provide anything but minimal schooling...