Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banks were not as pliant with the new mayor. Kucinich opposed tax abatements and the sale of the city's most valuable remaining asset, the publicly owned electric company...
...form of income taxes and city property, and a private investor agreed to underwrite the city's debt. The bank turned down these offers. Kucinich charges that at a private meeting he likens to a "street mugging," the chairman of Cleveland Trust made extension of credit conditional on the sale of the city-owned electric company to its private competitor. According to the mayor, the proposed sale called for the private company to pay the city about one third of the electric system's real value, and to spread payments over a 30-year period without interest. Kucinich refused...
...Cambridge Historical Society recently declared the Cornerstone Baptist Church, built in 1853, a historical landmark. The church was up for sale...
...ordinance includes a variety of conditions for denying licenses to potential operators and prohibits persons under the age of 18 from entering such establishments. The ordinance also outlaws the sale or use of alcoholic beverages within such businesses and restricts operating hours to between 7 a.m. and mid-night...
Harvard was founded on Oct. 28, 1636, when the Boston General Court approved a motion to spend 400 pounds to found a college in the area. It was not a hot issue--the motion was the last item on a busy schedule that included prohibiting the sale of lace and awarding five pounds to a sailor who lost an eye while on a voyage to Block Island...