Word: caps
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...balmy night in September 1988 San Diego's Mayor Maureen O'Connor spent the night in Balboa Park, not to take the air beneath the palm fronds but to sample the life of homeless people. In jeans and baseball cap, she watched a series of drug deals go down. She spent a second night among more vagrants at a skid row mission. Throughout most of her 48 hours on the streets, she went unrecognized -- until Sister Raymonda, a nun who has known the mayor for years, spotted her resting on a bench reading the paper and whispered, "If you want...
...intents and purposes, it is a private institution," said Robert C. McBurney 90. "The decision was well-founded." And said Andrew P. Cap '92, "I agree that final clubs are private and have a right to determine who they...
Prop 2 1/2, approved by almost 60 percent of the voters in a 1980 referendum, sets a limit on the amount of revenue a city or town can raise through property taxes and puts a cap on the annual property tax increase...
Ladd says that the 2 1/2 percent increase cap on the property tax is not flexible enough to allow for high inflation rates. If inflation causes the cost of local government services to increase by 5 percent, the 2 1/2 increase in revenue becomes insuffi...
...Boston has never put an override question on the ballot, and only two cities--Cambridge and Northhampton--have successfully overridden the tax cap...