Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Digital editor Joshua Quittner. "While that's useful on the Internet, where we gravitate to those who are politically opinionated and even sensationalist, people like Drudge have a harder time surviving in the more limited realm of mass media." So Drudge, who harnessed a new medium to climb from gift shop clerk to columnist read by millions in a matter of years, retreats to the Web. There he has final edit on his Drudge Report site, the only criticisms come via e-mail, and "delete" is just a keystroke away...
...This gift will invigorate the School's rich tradition of public service by graduates at the federal level," said Dean Robert C. Clark in the release. "Perhaps this program will help produce the next Elizabeth Dole or Archibald...
...there is evidence that McCain is able to build bipartisan coalitions on occasion. He has successfully pushed for passage of the lobbying-gift ban, the line-item veto and the repeal of the catastrophic- health-care surtax, an unfair tax on seniors. As Commerce Committee chairman, McCain has shown the ability to navigate difficult issues like Y2K liability and whether to tax goods sold over the Internet, trimming his opinions to bang out a consensus. On the ill-fated campaign-finance reform, he has shaved away so many key elements to pick up support that some zealous supporters think...
Denzel Washington is a quadriplegic forensics expert. Angelina Jolie is a young N.Y.P.D. beat cop who discovers an ugly crime, an unsuspected gift for intellectual detective work and, eventually, a romantic attachment to Washington's character as the two try to ensnare a particularly unpleasant serial killer. The movie doesn't stand up to close, logical parsing. But Noyce's direction is atmospheric in the dank, currently chic manner; his actors spunky and attractive; and the path to the final, rather conventional, revelation is strewn with grotesque and suspenseful difficulties. It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach...