11.   Signer said the tax credit had helped hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and other retail stores that hire inexperienced workers with minimal skills and little education.

12.   Some of the working poor will get a tax credit to help them save for retirement, but only for five years.

13.   Technology companies are pressing for tax credits to help pay for the broadband networks that provide high-speed Internet access.

14.   The credits help not-for-profit developers of low-income housing finance their projects.

15.   Those credits helped produce a high rate of inflation and slowed the already painful transition to a market economy.

16.   White House officials said the tax credits would help achieve that goal.

17.   Critics maintain the credit helps generals and other members of the power establishment to enrich themselves.

18.   The automakers said the tax credits would help offset the high cost of manufacturing cars that run on new technologies.

19.   The automakers said the tax credits would help offset the high cost of manufacturing cars that run on new technologies rarely seen on the road today.