— In the sandstone mountains overlooking Santa Barbara, Calif., Hans Van Koppen hoisted himself onto a beat-up unicycle and gained his balance with a few tentative rolls.
Unlike tax lawyers and consultants who file complaints over tax bills every March, Mr. Schussler did his work well before the annual tentative tax roll was set on Jan . 15
So when I took that tentative first roll across Rom's pristine surfaces – one of the largest and best of the skateparks developers were then rushing out across the UK – it was a dream come true.
"Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll".
"Those are tentative tax rolls," she said.
The city just released its tentative assessment rolls for the next tax year, along with reams of information about property sales trends.
In January, when the city published its tentative property assessment roll for the 2014 fiscal year, it noted that it would inspect all storm-damaged properties that had been given a red tag by the Department of Buildings, signifying that they had been demolished, needed to be demolished or required major structural repairs before they would be habitable.
But now, according to data from the tentative annual assessment roll, which will largely determine taxes for the fiscal year beginning in July, declining values of small homes outside Manhattan are pulling down the overall market as the effects of the country's mortgage trouble take hold.
Amid concerns that conservatives could roll back tentative progress made on women's rights, the United Nations office in Afghanistan stepped in on Tuesday, issuing a statement saying that it "strongly supports the critical role that women's protection shelters play in providing support and safety for vulnerable Afghan women and girls, especially victims of domestic abuse and violence".
But the past decade also saw the tentative resurgence of rock 'n' roll — both the real kind and the blander Broadway approximation (see "Next to Normal") — as a reliable resource.
Instead China has not become a market economy, and has rolled back many tentative efforts in that direction, leaving much of the rest of the world highly reluctant to recognize China as a market economy.
