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...panel was convened at the behest of the U.S. Congress in 1996 and produced its report in October after considering 61new mathematics programs...
...general, you should max out on any tax-deferred savings opportunity. This has been especially true since Congress two years ago rolled back a punishing 15% excise tax on withdrawals from retirement accounts deemed, through a complicated formula, to be too large. Be careful, though, if your tax bracket will rise in retirement. Withdrawals from tax-deferred accounts get taxed as income. If you'll be retiring soon, new contributions might not have enough time to grow tax-deferred. You might be better served putting new savings into a tax-efficient mutual fund, like an index fund. When you cash...
...deployment to occur under the treaty, certain changes would be necessary. We have been discussing these with Congress, our allies and Moscow...
Unfortunately, as the CTBT vote reflects, the Administration and Congress have not yet agreed on a common post-cold war strategy for responding to these dangers. But the world's leading nation cannot remain divided on how to respond to the world's gravest threats. The Administration and Congress have worked together in the past on such key issues as the Chemical Weapons Convention and NATO enlargement. We must put aside partisan distractions and work together...
Patent extensions for drugs are rare. The last one, granted in 1996, was for the popular arthritis drug Daypro. So Schering-Plough has tried to work the system every way it can. First it wanted Congress to approve a straight extension of its patent. When that didn't fly, it tried a bill that would have shifted any patent-extension decision away from Congress to a new review board at the Patent and Trademark Office, and defined criteria for such extensions in ways that tended to favor the drug companies. But that bill, quietly introduced by New Jersey Senator Frank...