Word: iras
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...summer had started out relatively well. After years of dithering and delays, the Irish Republican Army had finally declared an end to its armed campaign and announced that it would decommission its entire arsenal. That promised disposal of thousands of weapons under scrutiny by international observers, which the IRA has promised would be completed by mid-October, may have already started in secret arms dumps around Ireland...
During their 20 years together, husband and wife Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, plus bassist James McNew, have been praised more than Philip Roth and sold only slightly more records. These three discs are the perfect way to discover a band that swings wildly between exuberant lo-fi noisemaking (The Story of Jazz, Shaker) and some of the best adult love songs of the past decade (Stockholm Syndrome, Tears Are in Your Eyes). They're proof that maturity and fun are not mutually exclusive...
...Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. There is a protocol to such tasks. Standard international procedures begin by designating the mortuary site and forming an Identification Commission. In the London case, the commission is headed by Reid and the Westminster coroner, Paul Knapman, who led the inquest into a 1996 IRA bus bombing that killed the perpetrator; it also includes Metropolitan Police Service officers, forensic pathologists and dental experts, who act much like a tribunal in ruling on identity. Commission members study information provided by friends, relatives, doctors and dentists of the missing, and compare it to their own postmortem findings from...
...legislation requires minute scrutiny, and the Ways and Means plan had many minor and major changes in the fine print. The proposal would keep the top annual contribution for an Individual Retirement Account at $2,000, but it would reduce a taxpayer's IRA write-off by $1 for every dollar the person puts into a 401(k) plan, another popular tax-deferred savings plan. The committee felt the Government could recoup revenue by limiting how much money taxpayers put into both plans at the same time...
...including I Love a Parade, I've Got the World on a String and III Wind. A retiring man who liked to jot down musical ideas while walking the dog or riding in a car, he worked with such leading lyricists as Ted Koehler, Johnny Mercer, E.Y. Harburg and Ira Gershwin. Many of his hits, such as Let 's Fall in Love, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic and One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), survived forgettable Broadway and Hollywood musicals to become repertoire standards for gifted interpreters like Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand...