Word: preventing
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CHARITIES. Going along with the House, the committee agreed to end the unlimited charitable deductions that allow some extremely wealthy people to escape payment of all or nearly all federal income taxes. This provision has some undesirable side effects. While it would prevent charitable contributions for purposes of reducing taxes, it would also remove the incentive for making gifts to schools, museums and other nonprofit institutions...
...Assistance project. In three years, CRLA lawyers have won 85% of more than 35,000 cases. Their success has nourished a greater respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly did not do so because OEO Director Sargent Shriver was prepared to override...
...said in Commonwealth v. Wheeler, . . . 'a physician may lawfully procure the abortion of a patient if in good faith he believes it to be necessary to save her life or to prevent serious impairment of her health, mental or physical, and if his judgment corresponds with the general opinion of competent practitioners in the community in which he practices...
Tufts University called in 200 police yesterday to prevent students from obstructing the construction of a dormitory. Both Tufts Afro and the administration have charged the construction company with racial discrimination in hiring...
...handful of Harvard students in the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) picketed yesterday morning at the General Electric Supply Company to prevent trucks from loading...