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...criticism of Plante's original design) and extending the fiberglass to protect the top of the head and neck. Today's goalie sports a mask that includes protection for the throat and is fashioned often from carbon fiber or Kevlar for added protection against flying pucks. The design has even crossed sports: in the past decade many baseball catchers have begun sporting hockey-style masks behind the plate...
Proponents say the tax credit has helped breathe life into the comatose housing sector and that its extension is critical. "Failure to act now could derail the fragile housing recovery even before it has time to take root, " said Jerry Howard, president and chief executive of the National Association of Home Builders, in a recent statement. (See six year-end tax tips...
Congress is under the gun from homebuilders and Realtors to extend the $8,000 first-time home buyers' tax credit beyond its Nov. 30 expiration and even expand the credit to existing homeowners - a move that could happen before the week...
...know how much of the success you would attribute to the [tax-credit] program and how much of it would have happened anyway because [home] prices went down significantly and interest rates went down at the same time, so the affordability became much better even without the program," says Bill Norwalk, a tax partner with Ireland San Filippo...
...peace can be made without them. His problem, of course, is that no peace can be made without the Palestinians either, and that Abbas' willingness to make do with whatever was on offer from Washington until now has made him an increasingly marginal figure among his own people. Even if the U.S. manages, once again, to cajole Abbas into acting against his own better judgment and restart talks, the achievement will be a hollow one because Abbas would be at the table without the support of Fatah, much less of Hamas and the broader Palestinian public...