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...NCAA was investigating whether any of the players had committed a violation by signing Ivy League certificates of eligibility, but "everything was clarified" after Cutler and Randy Roth '75, a Harvard hockey captain, traveled to an NCAA meeting in Chicago, Cutler said...
...money paid for his children's tuition fees at private elementary and secondary schools and at colleges and universities, up to a limit of $500 per child. In comparison, the College Tuition Tax Relief Act proposed by Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth is, like Carter's plan, limited to college students. It calls for an income tax credit of $250 for a dependent's first full-time year in college, $300 for the second year, $400 for the third and $500 for the fourth. Neither of the plans sets a limit on family income...
Defending his own more limited remedy, Carter charged that the other programs would be excessively costly and un ocused. The Packwood - Moynihan proposal would cost the Treasury $4.7 billion a year and the Roth plan $1.9 billion v. Carter's $1.5 billion. Direct tax credits, the President added, would also "provide benefits to those who do not need them...
Meanwhile, neither Roth nor the Packwood-Moynihan team is prepared to abandon the tax-credit measures. Says Roth, whose proposal has passed the Senate three times but foundered in the House: "A majority in both the House and the Senate are sponsors of tuition tax cred its." No fewer than 252 members of the House and 57 Senators co-sponsored various tax credit bills in the past year. Nonetheless, Carter's proposal has gained support from influential members of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Either way, the chances are good that middle-income families will win some...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré∙The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth∙ Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison ∙Transatlantic Blues, Wilfrid Sheed