Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which would give the state legislature authority to create a classification system for property taxes. It would limit assessments of residential property to 40% of market value, while allowing commercial property to be assessed at 50% and industrial property at 55%. Proponents claim that the change would help protect homeowners in the future from steep tax increases like those experienced in New Bedford...
...brought them all together by pushing for approval at the Nov. 7 election of a change in the city's charter that would allow him to run for a third term next year. His opponents include the Black United Front Against Charter Change, the liberal Committee to Protect the Charter and the businessmen's Committee for the Defense of the Charter. Says Banker R. Stuart Rauch Jr.: "Rizzo is a master at fragmenting the opposition, but now he's running against the most organized, best-financed, toughest opposition he's ever had." Businessmen have raised...
...Vanriper, Neiman Fellow from the New York Daily News said, "It is not the black and white case I would have preferred it to be. It's a tragedy that any of us go to the can. I have to regularly promise I'll go to jail to protect a source...
...stepped up again following the 1972 earthquake that destroyed Managua. At Somoza's request, 600 marines were flown to Managua the next day to protect lives and property and stabilize the Somoza regime. The determination of successive administrations to keep Somoza in power is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the U.S. government continues to violate its own laws in order to funnel aid to Somoza. Specifically, the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aid to foreign police forces--but the National Guard is Nicaragua's police force. (It is also the army. But there is no real threat...
...ills only reflect the wider problems besetting the nation's railroads. Though a healthy rail system is more essential than ever to save gasoline and carry coal, the industry has been held back for years by overregulation by the ICC, which keeps rates high in order to protect inefficient lines-and thus often makes the railroads uncompetitive with rival transport systems...