Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, Republican Candidate Louie Nunn shook hands all around the state. Nevertheless, he was unable to win forgiveness for an action he had taken when he served as Governor from 1967 to 1971 - raising the sales tax from 3? on the dollar to 5?. Not even carpeting the state with new roads or running a competent, scandal-free administration could placate those voters who still called the tax "Nunn's nickel...
Mississippi had a somewhat more decorous race. William Winter, 56, lean and bespectacled, lost two previous gubernatorial races to more colorful and conservative candidates. This time, Winter stressed his experience as a former state legislator, state treasurer, state tax collector and Lieutenant Governor. Since Winter has contributed articles on Mississippi history to academic journals, his intellectual side was balanced with a TV commercial showing him firing a pistol on a state highway-patrol range...
...Government stands ready to help because shale oil is an important part of Jimmy Carter's energy program. The Administration is more optimistic than oilmen: it envisages the production of 400,000 bbl. a day by 1990. Carter wants Congress to grant shale developers a tax credit of $3 a bbl. to make shale oil prices competitive with those of conventional petroleum. In addition to the Senate's $20 billion program, the Administration is providing $2.2 billion in fiscal 1980, largely for shale...
...mortgage rates. Kahn argued that inflation will not be brought under control so long as OPEC continues raising the cost of crude and the U.S. remains dependent on foreign oil. As a means of lessening that reliance, he said, the Administration had been considering a 500 per gal. gasoline tax and even gasoline rationing...
...attraction of co-ops and condos is simple: they offer the tax and investment advantages of home ownership, but usually for less money. Their appeal is strong among retired people squeezed by rising rents, young married couples and middle-income suburbanites stunned by fuel costs. "Going condo or coop" has become a buzz phrase in real estate, as San Francisco apartment buildings, Florida motels, and even a renovated Brooklyn church and a convent have become condominium or co-op flats...