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...increase of nearly 100 per cent. The Journal had remodeled its building in the past year, but the changes were minor compared with the nearly two-fold property tax increase. "He singled us out, there's no question about it," says one Journal staffer. "He didn't do the same to other businesses." The newspaper appealed Howe's decision, and received a full tax abatement...
...from eliminating service on a number of money-losing short lines that helped drive the six railroads into bankruptcy in the first place. Even Conrail's best trunk lines are short one-way hauls, with the cars returning to the terminal as empties. Explains William Druhan, a senior staffer for the House Transportation Subcommittee: "Union Pacific carries something 2,000 miles and gives it to Conrail, which carries it 200 miles and unloads...
...such treatment. This has been the case ever since 1970, when a segregationist friend lost a bid for Governor. That caused Thurmond to realize the importance of the political power of the blacks; at present 30% of South Carolina's electorate is black. Thurmond appointed his first black staffer that year. More recently he voted for congressional representation for predominantly black Washington, D.C., and supported the appointment of a black federal judge in South Carolina. His oldest child, Nancy Moore, 7, attends an integrated school in Columbia, S.C. This has ensured that Thurmond will get some black votes...
...political obstacles must be overcome: there will have to be less pork-barreling of useless energy projects in key states, less reliance on higher energy prices which pose equity and distribution problems, less resistance to use of alternative power sources. "We have some solutions within our grasp," a Senate staffer confided last week, "but they still need to be translated into political reality...
...Angeles musicians will miss Mehta, but they can't seem to lose these days. They have inherited an unsurpassed replacement: Giulini, whose mystical readings of music sometimes seem inspired by communion with the composer. Says one Los Angeles Philharmonic staffer: "You could say that we've lost a Hercules, but we're getting...