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These tax credits would credit basic amounts to parents based upon their commuting distance, with a cap placed upon a 60-mile radius from the voucher school, for example. Those commuting 0-30 miles might receive one fixed amount of tax credit, and those commuting 30-60 miles another. This fixed-income form of payment would encourage carpooling and create an incentive to select the cheapest available means of transportation...
...communities. Kenneth Stone, an economics professor at Iowa State, conducted a study of Iowa towns with Wal-Marts and found that while the number of small retailers did decline, other business was attracted to the area. "Apparently Wal-Mart stores attracted customers into town from a greater radius than had occurred before their entry," Stone says...
...Kuwait many times. The basic plot was known in detail: "The bomb was to be placed in an area where it could be detonated as President Bush's motorcade was to go by," a top intelligence official said. "The bomb, which weighed 175 lbs., had a fairly large lethal radius. Al-Ghazali was to move within a distance of 300 or 500 feet and detonate the bomb manually, using the radio remote-control device." If that plan failed, al-Ghazali was supposed to move the car to Bush Street in Kuwait City and activate the manual timer, which...
Walsh says Harvard should be taxed for all the services it receives from the city and for the property outside a small radius of the main campus that it has acquired over the years...
Being the ultimate agent, however, isn't enough for Ovitz; he's thinking bigger, ignoring nearly all the comfortable old show business boundaries. Lately he has extended his radius of operations, scaring the bejesus out of Madison Avenue by devising two dozen smart, sexy TV spots for Coca-Cola, and he may be looking to poach other business from the ad agencies. And still he wants more. He has turned himself into the movie industry's highest-profile investment broker in the past few years, arranging the multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Columbia Pictures by Sony and MCA/Universal by Matsushita...