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...advertisers pay residuals in proportion to the number of times a spot airs on the networks - but not on cable, for which the actor receives a flat rate. That system is outmoded, both sides agree, at a time when more and more advertising dollars are spent on cable. Says Ira Shepard, a lawyer negotiating for the advertisers, "There is no industry in this country, if not the world, that can, in the year 2000, survive on concepts and rules that fit technology in the 1950 and 1960s, and the TV advertising industry is no different...
...group of reform-minded physicians, caregivers and academics hopes to change the way doctors approach dying. They want all of us to discuss it sooner, so that no one faces a Kevorkian moment. "Our expectations as a culture for end-of-life care are too low," says Dr. Ira Byock, author of Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life. He thinks the assisted-suicide debate misses the point: "Doctors spend 12 minutes with you, even if you have a serious illness. So we only have a couple minutes to listen to your deepest fears...
...particularly painful instances, Marion would head into Los Angeles to seek out her dad at the Laundromat where he worked. She would spot him in his office, then be told he wasn't around. She'd look again, and he'd be gone. When Marion's stepfather Ira Toler died of a stroke in 1987, the 11-year-old was left with no father and no father figure. She has often said that given the chance, "I would have been a daddy's girl," and she sometimes wonders if she won all those trophies to impress a man she never...
...higher-education costs. And you don't necessarily have to live in the state whose plan you choose. Unlike other college-savings plans, 529 programs let you put away huge sums of money--more than $100,000 in some states, vs. the $500 annual contribution for an education IRA--and they generally have no income or age limitations. If you're thinking about going back to school, you can even set up a plan for yourself...
STATE AFFAIRS IRA products generally offer more investment options than traditional 401(k)s. But beware that unlike your 401(k) plan, IRA products do not offer federal protection from creditors. While some states like New Jersey and Texas have extensive protections, others like California, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire offer only limited protection in the event you find yourself held liable in a lawsuit or declaring bankruptcy. So before rolling over your nest egg into a Roth IRA, review your state's laws. One source is www.ici.org...