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...bill may also help. Next year a special "catch-up" provision lets workers 50 and older contribute an extra $1,000 to their 401(k)s, increasing $1,000 each year to $5,000 by 2006. For IRAs, the limits are $500 in 2002 through 2005 and $1,000 after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make No (Big) Mistake | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...cost of $52 billion in tax revenues over 10 years, gradually raise tax-deferred contribution limits for IRAs from $2,000 to $5,000 by 2004 and for 401(k)s from $10,500 to $15,000 by 2006. People age 50 and over would get special "catch-up" provisions raising their contribution limits more quickly - but the legislation would leave in place some income limits that prevent some middle-to-upper-income people from participating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Privatized Social Security, it May All Be in the Timing | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

With the rare opportunity to choose the background music of choice, cars give stressed-out Americans an opportunity to catch up on each others’ lives. Much like any other change of gears, these Catch-Up Car Confabulations do not spontaneously begin the moment the engine guns; it certainly take a few minutes for passengers to adjust to the intimate car environment. But a comfortable silence or light chatter marks the build up to a true Car Confabulation, imitating any other form of human intimacy...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confronting Car Confabulation | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...Catch-Up Car Confabulations are particularly common between parents and children. Such rides can prove to be repetitive, featuring identical conversation through eight years of primary schooling. For example...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confronting Car Confabulation | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

Still, the car is one of the few arenas where people can genuinely connect with each other, free from other distractions. The Catch-Up Car Confabulation is really just a 21st century showing of care and love—troubled relationships always feature silent car rides. Once the door opens, the spell is lost. Like a phone ending a much-need nap, the occupants are thrust back into the loud realities of the non-car world, and the Car Confabulation is terminated until the next ride...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confronting Car Confabulation | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

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