At Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, the overall exemption rate was 14.8% and at Capistrano Unified in south Orange County, it was 9.5%.
Los Angeles Unified kindergartens, for example, had an overall exemption rate of just 1.6%, although there are several in the district where more than 8% of students have belief exemptions.
Any lawsuit would have to be brought by fans or cable companies, but Mr. Specter added "our recourse would be to consider legislation, which could change their overall antitrust exemption on the over-the-air games".
Supporters of the legislation, including officials at Enron, felt Dr. Gramm's comments were not helpful, but the effort in the House was moving forward and the overall bill, including the energy exemption, easily passed.
The goal of tax reformers everywhere is to broaden the tax-paying base by cutting exemptions, while lowering overall rates.
Generally, Married Filing Jointly is the best option when filing a tax return because it has the lowest overall taxes, allows two personal exemptions, even if only one spouse worked, and the highest standard deduction amount.
This formed part of an overall evaluation of the delivery fee exemption scheme.
But government officials in other countries, including Britain, said they planned to strictly limit their proposed exemptions to insure that overall use of the gas continued to fall.
Overall, the rate of personal belief exemptions at California kindergartens with at least 10 students doubled to 3.1% last fall from 1.5% in 2007.
However, for the historical reflection proposed here, which requires a broader perspective, we should remember that the impacts of exemption policies in Africa have, overall, been modest.
Applying key concepts from complexity theory proved useful in broadening our view on fee exemption policies and in developing the overall research design.
