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Echoing his plan to shrink the federal deficit through stricter enforcement of the tax code, the Democratic presidential candidate asked for an extra $22 million for the state Revenue Department, which he said would yield $190 million in extra taxes per year...
...growing housing shortage and safety will be the most important issues facing the council this year, observers said. The council will consider Mayor Raymond L. Flynn's new housing package that includes rent control and stricter controls on converting rental units into condominiums...
...charge of the bridge. The catastrophe was all the more painful because of the approaching holidays. Calling the accident a "national tragedy of harrowing proportions," President Corazon Aquino * ordered a full investigation and declared "strict sanctions must be imposed on all parties at fault." Unless Aquino pushes for a stricter law, the punishment promises to be mild: the government's Board of Marine Inquiry can levy fines of no more than...
...stricter codes and improvements in the quality of living since the building was first constructed have reduced the viability of cheap housing in Cambridge, and the residence is "not up to the standards of the YMCA" anymore, said Foot. He said problems include the electric current, plumbing, lighting and fire doors...
...specimens bought by homeowners and collectors have been stolen from Government-owned wilderness lands. In Arizona last year more than 200 thieves were fined or given warnings for digging up a variety of state-protected species, most of which have shallow roots. Conservationists are now lobbying for stricter state and federal laws to stop poachers, who are lured by substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years to grow to 6 ft., routinely sell for $10 per ft. in height plus $50 an arm -- and can fetch ten times that amount in Europe and Japan. For instance...