Word: limits
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...child care. At present, these are deductible up to $4,800, but only if the taxpayer's income is $35,000 or less. The bill converts the deduction to a credit of as much as $800, to be subtracted from the tax otherwise owed, and removes the income limit. In all, these changes will save working parents $400 million next year...
...neither favors a constitutional amendment banning it. Both say they would support court decisions on individual cases, though the President has argued that some federal judges "have gone too far" in drawing up integration plans, notably in Boston. The President has submitted a plan to Congress that would limit busing to three to five years in school districts that try to integrate in good faith. Carter supports "voluntary" busing, and thinks the rights of minority groups can best be protected by putting their representatives on the governing boards of the school systems...
...mile stretch of highway between Ann Arbor and Detroit, even housewives in curlers pretend they are Mario Andretti. But one morning last week drivers revving up for the dash to Detroit found all lanes blocked by a trio of cars traveling abreast at 55 m.p.h., the legal speed limit. Behind the wheels were Stephen W. Long, Elizabeth Ann Lipski and Bruce Nielson, three friends who had taken it upon themselves to enforce the law. Their cars were decorated with signs reading GAS SHORTAGE and STAY ALIVE...
...Nader jump into Washington Lawyer Simon Lazarus' Corvair after a party, then warn the attorney not to mention that Lazarus had been stopped by a cop for exceeding the speed limit because Nader feared the headline: RALPH NADER CAUGHT SPEEDING IN CORVAIR? Undoubtedly...
...More than 100 miles to the east in Surrey, a mother and her four children were nearly burned to death when flames from a roadside grass fire engulfed their car. "Wales is a tinderbox," says Roy Orringe, deputy fire chief for Monmouthshire County. "My boys are stretched to the limit. Our calls have increased tenfold, and some work 72 hours without a break...