Word: roberts
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...agreed on the property tax rate for fiscal year 2009 last night. More than 58 percent of residential property owners will see either no change or an increase of fewer than $100 in their tax bill, while 25 percent will experience a decrease in their property taxes, City Manager Robert W. Healy told the Council last night. For the most part, the small percentage of residents to pay increases of over $500 have recently renovated their homes, thus increasing their value, Healy said. At the May budget meetings, Healy had said that taxes would likely go up to accommodate...
...Robert R. Glauber, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, explained that he was in favor of the current bailout package, because it would be “a rescue of individual, normal people, me and you, as much as a rescue of Wall Street...
...jacket hints at the tension between the art and business sides of drama, a tension Paulus negotiates daily as the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre. “The primary mission of the A.R.T. is to advance the art of theater,” says Robert Brustein, the A.R.T.’s co-founder. And since her hiring this spring, Paulus has worked to create a program that will fill the A.R.T.’s currently empty seats, restabilize its financial situation, and maintain its reputation as a beacon for innovative theater...
...official figure. Japan's trade with Africa, about $25 billion, is about one third of China's trade with the continent. Tokyo's move to expand JICA can be seen then as "partly China-driven, since Japan thinks they're competing with China for Africa and for resources," says Robert Dujarric, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University. "And this is partly U.S.-driven, since the U.S. knows that Japan is limited in terms of what it can do in the military field, so they should do something in the aid field...
...Israeli military sources say that Barak requested the radar from U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in July, after U.S. requests to station such a system in Turkey and Jordan were rejected. Barak was eager to acquire the advantage of the early warning that the system would provide in the event of a possible Iranian attack. But with the Russians already peeved at Israel for having had military advisers inside Georgia when war broke out over South Ossetia, the radar's deployment in Israel, say officials, might make Moscow even more likely to supply Iran and Syria with its highly...