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...product of Virginia-based TV Answer Inc., interactive television transmits data via radio waves to a base station linked by satellite to the firm's headquarters. The systems will be available in 25 major cities by the end of this year. While the concept may be a boon for exhausted nine-to-fivers too weary to dial Domino's, it may be a bane for parents of the always hungry twelvesomething...
...boon to the upper middle class, several plans would restore tax breaks for Individual Retirement Accounts to the higher-income taxpayers from whom they were taken in 1986. Another version would allow withdrawal of earnings from accounts funded with after-tax dollars...
Those ubiquitous CD box sets are not only a wildly successful marketing tool, they can also be a true boon to music lovers -- provided the artist is worthy of such enshrinement. Consider the recent compilations of two of the century's most formative singers. BESSIE SMITH: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS VOL. 2 (Columbia/Legacy) showcases this humongous godmamma of the blues in full cry, scorching the earth with New Gulf Coast Blues and Dixie Flyer Blues, marvelously backed by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LEGACY (1933-1958) (Columbia) is a shrewdly chosen 70-cut package from...
...break when he sold. Such a rifle-shot tax cut would be a huge incentive to invest in new companies, and to fund the expansion and modernization of old ones, but at a tiny fraction of the cost of an across-the-board cut. It would be a boon for Wall Street, making it that much easier to issue new securities. And it would be a snap to administer, because broker confirmation slips already denote newly issued stocks and bonds. In short, it would be cheap, it would be simple, and it would do exactly what the Administration claims...
...first they seemed like a sure cure. But those tempting low interest rates that Washington has engineered to boost the U.S. economy have started cutting both ways. They have been a boon for hundreds of thousands of homeowners who have rushed to refinance their mortgages at rates not seen since 1977. "It was definitely like finding money," says Michael Meyers, 41, a Chicago advertising-agency owner who swapped his 10.75% mortgage recently for one with a rate of just...