Something had to be done about the furnace, the fuel bills, the washing machine, the doctor and dentist bills, about making money stretch for food, for the mortgage, for taxes, for shoes, for half soles, for overshoes, for clothes, for the new leaks in the roof, for gas and light bills ; ;

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

Progressive measures taken during his kingship include: representatives of the commons, besides the nobility and clergy, were involved in governance ; the end of preventive arrests such that henceforward all arrests had to be first presented to a judge to determine the detention measure ; and fiscal innovation, such as negotiating extraordinary taxes with the mercantile classes and direct taxation of the Church, rather than debasement of the coinage.

* Multilateral, bilateral and unilateral taxes or restrictions on trade ;

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.

* Repeal marriage tax ; cut middle class taxes.

Elections were held in the spring of 1789 ; suffrage requirements for the Third Estate were for French-born or naturalised males only, at least 25 years of age, who resided where the vote was to take place and who paid taxes.

Although from a bourgeois family, after his degree in law Lavoisier became wealthy from a company set up to collect taxes for the Crown ; this allowed him to pursue experimental natural science as a hobby.

The costs of these provisions are offset by a variety of taxes, fees, and cost-saving measures, such as new Medicare taxes for those in high-income brackets, taxes on indoor tanning, cuts to the Medicare Advantage program in favor of traditional Medicare, and fees on medical devices and pharmaceutical companies ; there is also a tax penalty for those who do not obtain health insurance, unless they are exempt due to low income or other reasons.

Due to high urban density, there are not many filling stations ; Petrol in Hong Kong averages around US $ 2. 04 per litre, of which over half the cost is taxes.

* during the time between recording or levying taxable transactions and collecting the taxes due, the value of the taxes collected falls in real value to a small fraction of the original taxes receivable ; or

The government provides a wide range of incentives to investors, including remittance facilities to assist them in repatriating funds to the country of origin ; tax holidays which defer taxes for a period of years ; and duty-free access for machinery and raw materials imported for approved enterprises.

* 988 – Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law ; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.

War is the parent of armies ; from these proceed debts and taxes ; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

One swallow was all he would have ; ;

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;

It might have rained, any time ; ;

There might have been a fence or a house just over the next rise ; ;

Those writers known collectively as the `` Southern school '' have received accolades from even those critics least prone to eulogize ; ;

Other examples of gradual changes that have affected the Negro have been his moving up, row by row, in the buses ; ;

Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; ;

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

Some had been there for years ; ;

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;

`` Mr. Gross, concerning the formation of your Committee, there's the fact that you have been a legal adviser to the U.N. in the past ; ;

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

The advantages of paper currency were numerous: it reduced transport of gold and silver, and thus lowered the risks ; it made loaning gold or silver at interest easier, since the specie ( gold or silver ) never left the possession of the lender until someone else redeemed the note ; and it allowed for a division of currency into credit and specie backed forms.

An earlier study also concluded that there was no increased preponderance of arthritis of the hand of chronic knuckle-crackers ; however, habitual knuckle-crackers were more likely to have hand swelling and lowered grip strength.

This was duly lifted for long enough to allow Theobald's lands to be restored ; it was then lowered once more when Raoul refused to repudiate Petronilla, prompting Louis to return to the Champagne and ravage it once more.

Repeated attempts to open trade were opposed on both commercial and humanitarian grounds, although minor reforms in the 1850s and 60s lowered the prices charged to the natives for " luxuries " like sugar and coffee ; transferred more of the KGH's profits to local communities ; and granted the important Ivigtut cryolite concession to a separate company.

Ten Arab nations objected to their flags being lowered to honor murdered Israelis ; their flags were restored to the tops of their flagpoles almost immediately.

If there were shortages, prices would be raised ; if there were surpluses, prices would be lowered.

* Universal suffrage with a lowered voting age to 18 years, and voting and electoral office eligibility for all age 25 and more, including women ;

; Strikes: Strikes or taps are similar to cuts except that a finger below the sounded note is briefly lowered to the whistle.

They conducted their experiment with the bulb of a mercury thermometer as their object and with a bellows used to " quicken " the evaporation ; they lowered the temperature of the thermometer bulb down to, while the ambient temperature was.

The larynx also has a similar function as the lungs in creating pressure differences required for sound production ; a constricted larynx can be raised or lowered affecting the volume of the oral cavity as necessary in glottalic consonants.

For the servants the kitchen continued to also serve as a sleeping room ; they slept either on the floor, or later in narrow spaces above a lowered ceiling, for the new stoves with their smoke outlet no longer required a high ceiling in the kitchen.

" In waking life, he asserted, these so-called " resistances " altogether prevented the repressed wishes of the unconscious from entering consciousness ; and though these wishes were to some extent able to emerge during the lowered state of sleep, the resistances were still strong enough to produce " a veil of disguise " sufficient to hide their true nature.

Other commonly seen gadgets in the series include a baby woolly mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner ; an adult woolly mammoth acting as a shower by spraying water with its trunk ; elevators raised and lowered by ropes around brontosauruses ' necks ; " automatic " windows powered by monkeys on the outside ; birds acting as " car horns ," sounded by the driver pulling on their tails or squeezing their bodies ; an " electric " razor made from a clam shell, vibrating from a honey-bee inside ; a pelican as a washing machine, shown with a beakful of soapy water ; and a woodpecker whose beak is used to play a gramophone record.