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More from Less. One suggested way to realign the design would be for cities and suburbs to combine their spending and tax collecting, for the sake of efficiency and economy. States could also raise more revenue with less pain if they abandoned most nuisance taxes in favor of income taxes, which grow along with the economy, and they could lower sales taxes by reducing the number of exempted goods, such as food and drugs. Economists reckon that with such changes the states last year could have increased their sales-and incometax revenues by $5 billion. Of course, the states...
...play a violin and piano sonata with Rubinstein. Einstein missed a cue in one passage and came in four beats late. They started again, and again Einstein flubbed. They began once more, and the great scientist again missed the cue. Finally, the exasperated Rubinstein cried, "For God's sake, Professor, can't you even count up to four...
...sake," says Fulbright, "this is becoming a major war! I assume that this is still a democracy, that the Senate has a role to play in foreign affairs. The hearings are a part of that role." He adds: "The easy way is to go along, to keep quiet. It's not very pleas ant always getting shot...
They can do plenty. They can stop paying attention to administration for its own sake; they can stop caring so much about deadlines. They can start honoring their rules, like all the sensible rules at Harvard University, in the breach. Joseph L. Featherstone...
Clearly, the board will have to surrender some of its power. This may be a bitter pill to swallow, especially in public. But for the sake of St. John's more than 13000 students, the school's reputation and the reputation of Catholic education in general, it will have to be does...