Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allows a contribution of up to $1,750 annually to an individual retirement account (IRA) owned jointly by a husband and wife, or up to $875 annually to two separately owned IRAS, even though one spouse is unemployed. At present, no contributions can be made for a nonworking spouse...
Betty Williams, 33, was driving home from her invalid mother's house in the Catholic Andersontown district of Belfast on the afternoon of Aug. 10 when she saw a car spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne...
...Venetian blinds. I say, 'I'm going out, and I'm going to knock on people's doors in Andersontown to see how many people feel just as we do.' " The three set off with note pads into an area long known as an IRA stronghold, and within hours, they had hundreds of signatures on a peace petition. "I was like the Pied Piper," says Williams. "I ended up with a hundred women doing the same as me that night. Since then my life has gone topsy-turvy...
Corrigan and Williams, who plan to take their campaign throughout Northern Ireland, have also received death threats and obscene letters branding them "touts" (informers). "We will not be deterred by the hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade," huffed one IRA officer. The Protestant Telegraph, the Rev. Ian Paisley's fanatically Loyalist newspaper, also denounced the women's peace movement as "spurious" and "priest-inspired." After a gang of youngsters tried to set fire to her house, Williams sent her two children into hiding with friends...
...when he used to play with his wife Vivien (a better player than he is), there were times when he did not dare look at her on the court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick, a suburban New York mixed-doubles player, remembers that once while playing with a woman, not his wife, he inadvertently cleared his throat. "Now don't you start in," she said, turning on him. "This is as bad as playing with my husband...