Every investor, including Levy, makes mistakes.
Several pollsters, including Levy, said things didn't seem notably worse than in past years.
In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said Suffolk County political leaders, including Levy, "fanned the flames" of racial hatred before the stabbing death of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero by a group of young white men.
Though no specific actions were agreed, there was much belligerent talk, and even a list of possible retaliatory actions, including levies on European-based airlines that fly internationally.
Democratic legislative leaders last week offered alternatives to Mr. Schwarzenegger's recommended cuts, including levying a 9.9percenttaxax on oil extracted in the state and increasing the cigarette tax to $2.37 a pack, from 87 cents.
While Mr. Paterson had already abandoned many of his highest profile taxes, including levies on music downloads and nondiet sodas, the final budget was composed of a significantly steeper proportion of taxes, and fewer cuts, than he proposed.
Then in March, facing pressures to raise revenues and stem the rising fiscal deficit, Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister, released a budget that proposed new taxes on foreign entities in India, including levies on past deals that the Indian Supreme Court had ruled were not taxable in the country.
Additional revenue comes from taxing farmers in both Syria and Iraq, and from various forms of extortion in the towns it controls, including levying jizya (tax) on Christians.IS's mission is to create its own caliphate, but until now many of its sources of revenue have depended on its host states.
The European Commission's antitrust powers include levying fines of as much as 10 percent of a firm's global annual sales, though fines are typically much lower.
For example, CircleLending, based in Boston, services loans for $9 a month, which includes levying late-payment penalties and arranging for loan restructuring for delinquent borrowers.
Others included levies for parking in the hotel lot, even if the guests did it themselves; for receiving faxes; for having baggage transferred; and even for taking a dip in the hotel pool.
