Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...billed as the biggest tax rebellion in Massachusetts since the Boston Tea Party. For years, residents paid property levies that were 70% higher than the national average. So, in the wake of California's Proposition 13, Bay State citizens placed their own tax-limitation initiative on November's ballot. Under Proposition 2½, property taxes would be limited to 2½% of actual market value, auto excise taxes would be reduced by 62%, and renters would be able to take a state tax deduction for half their yearly rent. Voters, fired with visions of immediate tax relief, overwhelmingly...
...Karasiewiczes' overriding concern is food, which consumes 50% of their income and much of their time. The plant in Ursus helps out. It furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket...
...reached a virtual stalemate in their listless battle for control of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Fighting mainly over the capital of N'Djamena on the Chari River, the two miniarmies regularly exchanged artillery duels, and then, just as regularly, stopped shooting for lunch, tea and dinner breaks...
With Rosalynn, she sipped tea but left the fattening pastries untouched while she plied her hostess with housekeeping questions. Rosalynn also escorted her out on the "Truman balcony" to gaze over the spacious South Lawn and led her through the public and private rooms of her new dwelling. Advised Rosalynn: "The most important thing about the White House is to enjoy it." Nancy clearly was prepared...
Kirsten Skrinde as lusty, honest Rita and Eliza Gagnon as imaginative, quiet Carter carry off their roles with greatest success. Skrinde's Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation, the interviewer asked her if she had experience with a xerox machine--"yes," she said, "and I've tasted my menstrual blood, too." Gagnon's brooding Carter is so contained at the start of the play that when she finally erupts, announcing her goal "to put Wittgenstein on film...