Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They're buying up properties, and they don'teven pay taxes," he said, referring to theinstitutions' property tax-exempt status underMassachusetts...
...blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink boxer shorts to civilians are a statewide sensation that helps pay for Joe's volunteer posse of 3,000, some of whom carry guns...
Arpaio denies that brutality is encouraged or tolerated. The U.S. Attorney's office says the sheriff has until May to clean up his office or they'll see him in court. Arpaio says he has already enacted the necessary reforms. But if his tough-guy, tax-saving tactics are as effective as he claims at discouraging crime, why has the average daily jail population gone from 4,846 to 6,485 on his watch? Why is he campaigning for a new jail? And why has the budget increased by roughly $10 million, to a total of $91.5 million...
...early 1995, Newt Gingrich casually suggested giving tax credits to poor families to buy laptop computers but soon backpedaled from the proposal and called it "a nutty idea." In this low-income Manhattan neighborhood, the idea of 11-year-olds toting $1,500 laptops to school is so nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks...
...Keepers assembled in Washington; this spring they are rallying to pay their bills. The head of the organization, BILL MCCARTNEY, has told the staff of 345 that they will not be paid after March 31. This will be very bad news for some of them. The Promise Keepers' 1996 tax returns, which were obtained by TIME, show that the organization's five vice presidents were paid between $78,000 and $100,000 each, while the president, RANDY PHILLIPS, earned $132,512; their 1997 salaries were the same or higher. McCartney, who has taken less than $21,000 in compensation, called...