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Halverson examined four different methods for calculating the in-lieu-of-taxes payment. Halverson said that while the different approaches failed to produce a consensus on determining a fair payment, he argued that the adnvantages and disadvantages of each method presented in the report will be useful in future town-gown debates...
Under the second method, universities would be charged according to the amount of money the city loses in revenues from tax-exempt land. But in the report, Halverson argues that in the case of Cambridge, the city actually benefits from the universities' presence because the remaining property values and resulting taxes, are on average "two to three times those of other suburbs around Boston...
THERE is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...circuit" may sound like high-tech mumbo jumbo, but Texas Instruments is betting that it will soon be as familiar a term as computer chip. Last week the Dallas-based electronics firm announced the development of the first OEIC, a chip that transmits information not through the cumbersome contemporary method of electrons passing along silicon pathways, but rather through the simplest medium of all: light...
...past they've gone for far-flung reforms," kalkanis said. "This year we're tried to find a method that was workable within the constraints the administration gave...