Word: circuited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such band-aid is the circuit-breaker for property tax relief--when the state runs a surplus it gives the money back to home-owners, scaled according to need. This is all well and good--we don't want the corporations to reap the windfalls as they did from Proposition 13. But circuit-breakers only divert time and attention from the real structural inequities in the tax system--the loopholes for the rich, the abatements for the corporations, the regressiveness of using tax incentives and credits to execute policy...
...composer. The son of ex-slaves, he had dropped out of school at 15. He was the only one of eleven children to live to maturity. Ragtime was regarded as indecent music; his mother never permitted him to play it in the house. Initially, Eubie toured the vaudeville circuit with Singer Noble Sissle. In 1921, with Sissle as lyricist, the pair scored a national breakthrough with Shuffle Along, the first Broadway musical ever to be produced, directed, composed and performed solely by blacks...
...angriest and most frustrated Jewish comedians, according to Janus, are the "Catskill comics" who have never been able to break away from the Jewish resort circuit and play to outside audiences. Says the psychologist: "There are 30 to 40 of them you've never heard of, all making over $100,000 a year. They all say, 'Don't mention me as a Catskill comic...
...House master said this week there are rooms in his House that are literally uninhabitable because of faulty heating systems. Another master complained about faulty wiring systems that short-circuit with surprising regularity...
...highlight of the boulder-strewn, pot bunkered Van Cortland circuit is "Cemetery Hill", an arduous grade just before the three-mile marker. "It's a terrible monster that just kills you on the second mile," Meyer said...