Word: exceptions
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Nothing, they say, is for sure except death and taxes. Past Tuesday you may not be able to count on taxes. Tax cut fever, first cultured by California political scientist Howard Jarvis in 1978, has spread through the air conditioning systems of corporation executive suites in the years since. Voters in 17 states will decide tax cut referendums in tomorrow's election, but nowhere are the proposed gashes as deep in Massachusetts, where Proposition 2 1/2, Question 2 on the ballot, has become the Bay State's hottest political issue...
...consider myself a sleazy politico," she says. "There's no spoils system. I won't get anything out of this except for experience. I'm doing it because Carter is the best...
...that means about a 25 per cent budget cut for Cambridge. Or, in city manager Jim Sullivan's words, 100 policemen, 100 firemen, 250 or more teachers. The city's neighborhood health clinics. A score of administrators. All branch libraries. And then the next year, another 25 per cent. Except that you can only get rid of branch libraries once, so maybe 150 cops this time. Cambridge's police force, by the way, numbers about 300. By the time the measure is fully phased in, the city will be able to pay the interest on its debt, the cost...
...been the victim of FBI entrapment and would vindicate him at the polls November 4, Myers is running what one veteran Philadelphia political observer has called "your basic invisible campaign." His campaign headquarters lists a phone number with the First Congressional District office, but it goes unanswered. Except for interviews on "Donahue" and a few other television talk shows, Myers' campaign appearances have been nearly non-existent...
Hobson has conducted extensive research on cats, which he says confirms the existence of the independent dream center in the mammalian brainstem. "REM occurs in cats when the entire brain except the brainstem has been destroyed," he says. The cat research has shown that REM causes the brain to create the dream and not vice-versa, Hobson says. "Obviously, we cannot tell if a cat is actually dreaming, but by inserting a microscopic electrode into a cat's brain, we can measure the electrical signal as it passes along a single nerve cell--the impulse in the eye fires before...