Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market: the longer a person holds on to a home as inflation keeps driving up its value, the greater becomes the eventual property-tax burden that the new owner will acquire. As a result, two identical homes on the same street could have wildly different taxes. That does not seem to worry the state's growing legions of tax rebels, however. A victory for Jarvis-Gann would give enormous new momentum to tax revolts everywhere...
...that, homeowners must also pay Social Security and a whole range of other state taxes that have been growing explosively in recent years (see chart). The nibbles from those taxes come a little at a time every day or every payday and thus seem less aggravating. Only the property tax looms up once a year (or sometimes once a quarter) as a lump-sum payment of hundreds or thousands of dollars. As such, it is an easy target for people who often feel that the very homes they live in are being threatened...
...battle in California over the Jarvis-Gann initiative to reduce property taxes has reached an almost religious intensity. Reports TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane: "Reason and logic seem to have been put to flight, and taxpayers want revenge. The real propulsion behind the amendment is the need for people to send a message to government that enough is enough...
Bunny is the one who makes everything in the Mellon domestic world seem so effortlessly perfect. "The job that Paul has given me is to set the stage for the life he moves in," she says. But for fear that perfection would itself be an imperfection, Bunny carries with her a pair of scissors, notes Capote. "When things are looking a little too neat, she takes a little snip out of a chair or something so that it will have that lived-in look...
...essays are comic turns; Rosten does equally well at carrying weighty subjects lightly. His ideas are unstartling, and in fact they would seem ordinary, if clarity and common sense were ordinary. "I wonder how those faculty members who aided campus revolt will come to terms with themselves in a calmer future," he muses, writing about student takeovers of universities in the '60s. "Did they not give away rights they would have refused to surrender to, say, an investigating committee of Congress, or a reactionary board of trustees, or a witch-hunting press? Did they...