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None of the stiffer penalties at the state level are expected to do much good. Buttlegging has a lot going for it: a touch of high adventure, the allure of beating taxes, and profit. Nor are Mob connections needed to make a go of it. An individual entrepreneur with a van can load up in North Carolina or Virginia, where the state tax is only 2? or 2½? a pack, head north on Interstate 95 (now known as Tobacco Road) and sell the cigarettes at a high profit hi New York and Connecticut, where state and local taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tobacco Road | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...should a Clancy face stiffer entrance requirements than, say, the son of a more prosperous black family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Doctored Program | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...concentrations could be kept small by making enrollment and degree requirements stiffer, Behrman said. Some elite concentrations already have made efforts to tighten up their requirements, he added...

Author: By Gideon R.gil, | Title: CUE Unanimously Votes To Open Elite Majors | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

After the team treated her to a full-dressed post-game shower, Kleinfelder could only reflect, "We need stiffer competition...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: 'Cliffe Hoopsters Cut Jumbos to Size, 85-36 | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...discriminatory amnesty must also include Vietnam-era vets with less-than-honorable discharges. Bad discharges were issued disproportionately to minorities (who also according to the military's own statistics, received stiffer court-martial sentences than whites for identical offenses). Ninety per cent of bad discharges were issued administratively, without a court-martial, mostly for offenses that would not be crimes in civilian life. Yet the consequences for a less-than-honorable discharge is severe: veteran's benefits are denied, good jobs are almost impossible to obtain. Bad discharges help to account for the nearly half-million Vietnam-era vets...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: For Unconditional Amnesty | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

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