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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general, the curricula represent a change from current policies because they focus on problem-solving rather than learning arithmetic by rote learning...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Professors Criticize New Math Curricula Report | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...have a large estate, consider setting up a family limited partnership to accelerate gifting. By placing securities in such a partnership and naming yourself the general partner, you may be able to give away more, faster, notes Kevin Flatley, director of estate planning at BankBoston. Courts have consistently found that assets in such a partnership have less value because they are not liquid. Only the general partner can sell. So you may be able to gift up to $14,000 of stock this way and value it at only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year-End Tax Tips | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year-End Tax Tips | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...that show, among other things, that rabbits that are regularly stroked have less plaque in their arteries--he puts them in the context of policy. He argues, for example, that the government and private insurers could save untold billions on unnecessary heart surgery. And he doesn't stop there. "General Motors ought to be saying to every [employee] that they cover, 'If you decide you need a heart transplant, you ought to be taking vitamin E, you ought to be taking selenium,'" he said. "That ought to be part of the contract General Motors insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newt Gingrich: The Health Nut | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...whether it was O.K. for us to add Internet support into that. Judge Jackson entered a preliminary injunction, and the appeals court couldn't have been more black-and-white in rejecting everything he had done there. [The appeals judges] went out of the way to state the general principle that the courts won't be involved in software design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates: They're Trying to Change the Rules | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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