…New York spends more than $8 billion a year on tax incentives and grants to attract and retain businesses in the high-tax state, and advocates of the measure have for years sought to extend the largesse to the newspaper and local TV industry. The late addition to the $237 billion budge...
in the way you are trying to tell us to”, Mr Masisi told German newspaper Bild. “This is no joke.” Botswana is home to about a third of the world’s elephant population – over 130,000 – more than it has
People had not given enough money to finish the structure.A New York newspaper urged Americans to give more money for the pedestal. People reacted by giving one-hundred-thousand dollars. VOICE TWO: Now the huge statue had a pedestal to stand on. In France, the statue was taken apart for...
2020). Numerous newspaper articles describe speed limiters as an entrance gate to the “nanny state” (e.g., Mowat 2019). A Canadian truck-driver who had been ordered to use a speed limiter went to court, arguing that this order infringed on his freedom (Nyholm and Smids 2020). Although...
Near the end, the leading New York newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer used his paper, the World, to raise the last necessary funds. Designed by the American architect Richard Morris Hunt, the statue’s pedestal was constructed inside the courtyard of Fort Wood, a fortress built for the War of ...
Liberty, Equality, EfficiencyTaking action to reduce inequality in America would probablyincrease, not reduce, economic...Krugman, PaulMeade, James (1990): Liberty, Equality and Efficiency. New York: New York University Press.
At last France presented the statue to the United States. The celebration took place in Paris on July Fourth, Eighteen-Eighty-Four. Americans started building the pedestal that same year. But they had to stop. People had not given enough money to finish the structure.A New York newspaper urg...
a fact that the newspaper could have been checked by a quick search ofDebrett’sonline database, orBurke’s Peeragedatabase. These two resources both require subscriptions to access the databases, but consideringThe Independentis a major publication, it is reasonable to expect them to pay for ...
(sell). some newspapers, most notably the New YorkTimes, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehementlyopposed (9)___(spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher JosephPulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the...
Private letters, diaries, and newspaper articles of the time reveal that ideas of personal freedom and social equality embodied in the American society were of great value to the migrants. In the United States, people were free to pursue own goals. And this is why I am quite sympathetic to...