Word: states
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Governor Foster Furcolo has proposed a more sweeping solution: imposition of a limited sales tax throughout the state. Receipts from this three per cent levy would be redistributed to the cities and towns of the commonwealth. In an effort to win Boston support for his proposal, Furcolo developed his program of redistribution so that the city would receive more than a generous share. It was said that such an indirect subsidy to Boston could cut the real estate levy--now $101.20--by as much as $20, a considerable improvement if possible...
...poorly supported. But others, such as Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics and a member of Powers' "brain trust," doubt that Boston would, in the long-run, benefit from the sales tax revenue. "The city is like a sponge," Soloway says. If Boston got a windfall from the state, various groups of city employees would pressure for wage raises; this patronage pressure would soon soak up the additional funds meant for easing the tax burden...
...hour-long, five-part test was developed by Carroll and Professor Stanley M. Sapon, now at Ohio State University, principally under Carnegie Corporation grants. Existing tests, Carroll declared, are not doing a sufficiently good job of predicting language success and have not kept pace with changes in the teaching of languages...
Such is the state of the whole U.S. space program that not one U.S. space project has a firm target completion date. The nation's space leaders are not necessarily space enthusiasts...
Grin Returns. Next morning Politico Rockefeller rose like a new day. Into his hotel suite for breakfast came a Wisconsin delegation which left enthusiastically with the word that Rocky probably would be speaking "somewhere" in their state on his return from California and Oregon next month. Several Illinois Republican bigwigs dropped in for a chat, and National Committeeman Morton Hollingsworth observed: "I would have no fears as a Republican if he should be elected...