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...Comptroller Sheldon Tandler refused speculate on why land values increased significantly over the last year but he did say that his office is now. conducting its annual review of tax assessments. Land prices in the area may have gone up because St. Paul's Church recently sold a plot of land on Quincy Street for more than $6 million, a higher price than was expected...
What to do? Sheldon Danziger, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, warns against anything other than closely targeted approaches to the problems of the poor: "In the 1970s I would have said we should have a guaranteed annual income. I don't say that now. We have learned that blunt instruments don't work." Making the income tax system more progressive would seem an obvious step, but economists warn that it has its limits. Says Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution: "There are estimates suggesting that if we raise tax rates on people making more than...
...Sheldon Tandler, comptroller of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), offered a possible explanation. He said "a combination of inflation and a demand for housing" caused the increase in market-rate rents. He added that rates are arrived at by regression analysis and reviewed by a faculty committee...
Walsh would not discuss his conclusions, saying that he could not draw any because Harvard Real Estate comptroller Sheldon Tandler, who conducted the tour, would not let him bring along an appraiser. Walsh said he would meet with the appraiser later last night to discuss his impressions...
...will be free for executive-class passengers and cost $4 a flight for those with coach seats. The June selection includes the movies Innerspace and Shoot to Kill, reruns of Moonlighting and Night Court, a cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny and a recap of the 1987 World Series. Airvision President Sheldon Presser says the mini-TVs will also appear later this summer on Qantas Airlines and British Airways...