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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...
...should a Clancy face stiffer entrance requirements than, say, the son of a more prosperous black family...
...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...
After the team treated her to a full-dressed post-game shower, Kleinfelder could only reflect, "We need stiffer competition...
...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...