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Some excise taxes (considered to be benefit taxes) are levied on bases that are related to the use of publicly provided goods and services or the public provision of other benefits, such as the gasoline tax; certain other excise taxes are levied on bases related to a cause of some damage and are dedicated to pay down costs, such as the tax on domestically mined coal, which is dedicated to the black lung disability trust fund.
The region was unproductive and without great resources, except for the Sarawak river valley, where the Chinese mined for gold and antimony.
While companies once mined scents from natural sources such as "the anuses of a mongoose-like African animal called a civet," they now use computers and chemical synthesis to create new scents: After sampling odors and digitizing their chemical makeup, scent-creators change various elements to derive a new smell.
Signatories will have four years to destroy their inventories and 10 years to clear areas that have been mined.
It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."