Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More stunning was the amount of public outrage that followed: there was none. The notion of giving individuals the power to invest at least part of their payroll taxes--in stocks, bonds or another savings plan they might choose--raised hardly a complaint in a week when the Dow closed above 9000 for the first time. The stock-market boom has, it seems, turned Americans into a nation of risk takers. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 60% of those surveyed said they would like to play the market with some of their Social Security taxes; and if they could...
...rock, pop, hip-hop and funk musicians that keep the underground music scene on this campus alive and kicking. Too many concertos and a capellas create a dry and predictable stereotype undeserving of the Harvard music scene. It's time to break out of the traditional mold and invest time and money into these fruitful, burgeoning musical prospects called student bands...
French schoolgirl with peddle pushers, those slim-legged pants which end just below the knee. Make a bee-line to Urban Outfitters or you local vintage shop and invest in some peddle-pushers to cultivate that under-age look. Models...
...fall for it blindly. When you convert, you must pay tax on the whole bundle. Converting makes sense if you have non-IRA funds to pay the tax and will stay in the same tax bracket or move to a higher one. It helps if you invest in stocks and have 10 years before you'll need the money. If that's you, convert this year while the taxman is running a Roth special: you get to spread the tax liability over four years. But if you're near retirement and lean toward bonds or CDs, converting...
...declare war against the U.S.? Solely to please his Japanese ally? Why did he mandate a policy of cruelty in the Soviet territories occupied by his armies, when certain segments of the population there were ready to greet them with flowers? And finally, why did he invest so much energy in his hatred of Jews? Why did the night trains that took them to their death have priority over the military convoys that were taking badly needed troops to the front? His dark obsession with the "Jewish question" and its "Final Solution" will be long remembered, for it has evocative...