Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, counterculture guru and peripatetic fugitive; for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend in Philadelphia; in France. The former Harvard lecturer fled to Europe just before the start of his 1981 trial for killing Holly Maddux. He was convicted in absentia in 1993 and arrested last year. But a French court refused to allow his extradition, citing a lack of provisions in Pennsylvania state law--since added--that would grant him a new trial...
...converted from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA earlier this year when the market was sky high, why not do it again? You have to pay taxes on the value of your portfolio at the time of the big switch, so now that the Dow has gone south, it might be wise to roll back into a traditional tax-deferred IRA and then instantly reconvert into a tax-free Roth, potentially lightening your tax load come next April 15. But don't wait too long to roll over: the IRS could amend the rules this fall to restrict...
...graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, it is easy to believe that the unofficial war in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries continues. Two boys visit a lump of plastic flowers that passes as a fresh grave, the caretaker sweeps a traveled path past still shining headstones marked "IRA Volunteer" and the police surveillance camera hovers atop a thin gray tower across the Falls Road, watching shadowy forms dart among the monuments...
...thing to do is to sit back and wait," says Stephanie Rubin, 52, an executive with a search firm in Chicago who has about $300,000 in stocks. "If it's down 25% on paper, it doesn't bother me because it's money tied up in an IRA account. I'm not going to touch this money till...
...going too far, too. "We have had a succession of tough laws and tough laws and tough laws, and the horror has increased and increased and increased," said former government spokesman Kevin McNamara. Given that the splinter group responsible for Omagh has already stopped operating, and that the IRA is calling for it to disband, Britain and Ireland may have arrived too late to padlock the stable door...