Word: iras
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...company's founder and artistic director, Ira Siff (a.k.a. Mme. Galupe- Borszkh), was introduced to opera in high school in New York City. "In the beginning, " he says, "it was Callas, Callas, Callas. I slept three nights in the streets to get into her 1965 Tosca at the Met. It was at once thrilling and hilarious, riveting and funny, especially because the performance was so devoid of humor. My giggles have always been appreciative, but once at the old Met I laughed so loud a dowager clobbered me with her program...
Allen and Maloney were supported by a tough front line featuring Eric Moore, Shawn Trice and Scott Kegler and two solid reserves in guard Ira Bowman, a new transfer from Providence, and forward Tim Krug...
...parents with adjusted incomes between $20,000 and $60,000 who have children under 13. Parents who earned up to $75,000 would get a smaller break, and the full $500 credit would not be available until 1998. His proposal to let parents withdraw money, tax free, from new IRA-like instruments to pay for education, medical care, first homes or elderly care would apply to parents earning up to $80,000; couples earning up to $100,000 would get a smaller deduction. And he would allow couples earning $100,000 or less to deduct as much...
Perhaps Kerrey's most controversial proposal was to cut the employee's half of the Social Security payroll tax by 1.5 percentage points, to 4.7%, and to require workers to save that money in an IRA-style plan -- an idea immediately attacked by the elderly lobby as undermining the tax base of Social Security. The move was spurred by focus-group discussions conducted for the commission last summer. According to the results, which TIME has obtained, the Americans ages 20 to 50 in the focus groups said they had no confidence they would get their money back from Social Security...
...Bruton, leader of the Fine Gael party and the new P.M., is on the record as supporting the peace process that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country in an 85-74 vote. He now heads a government formed with the support of a coalition of three parties...