Word: assessors
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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When the student strike center petered out, Kathy faded away. Over the summer, the Waltham tax assessor tried to close down the center. Officially, Brandeis complied; unofficially the center continued its work in campus buildings for several weeks. Finally the students brought suit to restrain Brandeis from closing the center, and the name of Kathy Power was one of five signatures at the bottom of the petition. "When the suit came up she was back, probably because she was the most articulate of the bunch and they needed a good spokesman," another friend said...
...Port Everglades Commission, the municipality's governing body, has decreed that the ship must leave the harbor by December. The pollution-control office of Broward County, in which the liner is moored, has cited her smoky stacks as a hazard. Combining insult with injury, the county tax assessor recently ruled that the berthed vessel is legally a building, and assessed it for $5,700,000. The new classification means that the Elizabeth is one of the few buildings in the world that can hoist anchor and sail away-if only to search for a friendlier tax jurisdiction...