Word: iras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Employees can set up the new IRA accounts starting on Jan. 1, and retirement experts believe that they will be widely used. Says James Dockerty, who manages pension benefits for 35,000 Shell Oil employees: "IRAS will become very popular...
...Justice Department's top priority. Accordingly, the department this fall may push Congress for a federal death penalty; a loosening of the "exclusionary rule" that makes illegally obtained evidence inadmissible at trials; and stricter bail laws, including the right to refuse bail to "dangerous" offenders. Complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "These measures will harm civil liberties without having any impact on crime...
...Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, praised Banes' work during her first semester, saying "the state would be fortunate to have her. The school would be delighted if she remained with...
...term settlement is not good, he admits, adding that those who live in the Republic are scared of any hasty unification of the island. "They realize that if they were suddenly handed back the North now it would be a disaster. If the British army can't handle the IRA coming out of one-third of the population, the Irish army certainly couldn't handle the UDA coming out of two-thirds of the population. And probably a tougher two-thirds at that." The paramilitary groups make any peace even harder to achieve, he adds...
...would not go free. The task force also proposed limiting habeas corpus petitions, which allow prisoners to try repeatedly to get their convictions thrown out on constitutional grounds. Both recommendations, along with bail reform, have drawn heavy fire from civil libertarians. "It's a public relations fraud," complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They want to appear to be doing something about crime, but what they're really doing is fooling with the Constitution...