Word: accountants
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...stereotypes, the victims are hardly limited to uneducated or disadvantaged women. Many are from society's upper echelons. At least 10% of professional men beat their wives. One well-to-do victim: Charlotte Fedders, author of the recently published Shattered Dreams (Harper & Row; $17.95). Her book is a harrowing account of her 17-year marriage to John Fedders, a former Securities and Exchange Commission official...
...younger DuPont said his father believes the Social Security system will fail unless the government persuades some citizens to forgo their benefits. DuPont's plan would offer workers the chance to invest their Social Security payments in a tax-free account instead of paying the required fee to the Social Security system...
...matter of policy, how can the U.S. make saving more attractive? Perhaps the most popular suggestion calls for restoring the tax-free Individual Retirement Account contributions that were sharply curtailed under last year's tax-reform law. Introduced in 1974 and liberalized in 1981, IRAs became immensely popular as income shelters. Total IRA contributions grew from an estimated $28 billion in 1982 to $45 billion in 1986. Many economists argued, though, that IRAs did not spur new saving, but simply encouraged the shifting of funds from other investments. Advocates of the retirement accounts, however, contend that IRA contributions were just...
Only a small group of people "consider the addition of pork and shellfish an issue," said Sally Riggs, a spokesman for Brandeis's president. She said she was unaware of Brandeis having been excluded from almuni wills on account of the cuisine change...
...leaders. "They really do need a grand detente, and Gorbachev has a considerable mandate to get it." In particular, Gorbachev seems to have the support of the Soviet military. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief of the Soviet general staff, accompanied Shevardnadze to the meeting in Geneva and, by Shultz's account, was a "key person" in working out the verification measures that clinched the INF deal...