Word: iras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flood of immigrants, which includes thousands seeking professional and business careers, provides plenty of work for honest lawyers, who can earn $70,000 a year or more and who often contribute free legal services to the neediest. Some are respected human rights attorneys, like Miami's Ira Kurzban, who besides conducting his regular private practice has given much time free to defend Haitian boat people. Complains A.I.L.A. Executive Director Warren Leiden: "There's a bad rap against immigration attorneys...
...been absent from the country for more than two years. The real reason, according to other assessments, was that Asuncion was growing increasingly uncomfortable with the unpleasant publicity generated by the Mengele association. (Not coincidentally, perhaps, the doctor had by then been the inspiration for two novels, Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil and William Goldman's The Marathon Man, that had been turned into popular movies...
Despite the court's effort to state a narrow conclusion, its decision generated apocalyptic pronouncements of approval and criticism. The ruling, cheered Ira Millstein of the American Jewish Congress, gives "no aid or succor to anyone who wants prayer in the public schools." Agreeing with that analysis but not the result, Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri, a born-again Christian, denounced the court for its "phobic response to the six-letter word prayer." Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich, recalling earlier obscenity cases, objected, "It means the f-word is protected, but you still can't think God." Cried Michigan State...
...income above $9,575. Under the Reagan plan, taxes would start only if its income exceeded $12,798. Another tax break would give a family with one working spouse the opportunity to escape taxes on $4,000 deposited in Individual Retirement Accounts. The current limit is $2,250. IRA contributions by families in which both spouses work would remain deductible at $2,000 a person...
...deduction would lower taxes by $150, $250 or $350, depending on whether a family was in the 15%, 25% or 35% tax bracket. Barbara Kennelly, a Democratic Congresswoman from Connecticut, objected that though Reagan billed his reforms as "pro-family," the child-care, IRA and other provisions seemed tilted toward just one kind of family: the classic one in which only the husband works and the wife stays home and takes care of the children...