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...matter of policy, how can the U.S. make saving more attractive? Perhaps the most popular suggestion calls for restoring the tax-free Individual Retirement Account contributions that were sharply curtailed under last year's tax-reform law. Introduced in 1974 and liberalized in 1981, IRAs became immensely popular as income shelters. Total IRA contributions grew from an estimated $28 billion in 1982 to $45 billion in 1986. Many economists argued, though, that IRAs did not spur new saving, but simply encouraged the shifting of funds from other investments. Advocates of the retirement accounts, however, contend that IRA contributions were just...
...Revenue Enforcement and Protection (REAP) program, a brainstorm of Dukakis's former Commissioner of Revenue Ira A. Jackson '70, was developed in 1983 to alleviate the $300 million deficit the state was facing...
SOON-TO-BE Jazz Great Jane Ira Bloom looked at home on the other side of the music stands last Wednesday night, walking about the Harvard Jazz Band's practice room, giving direction and criticism to some of the College's top musicians. Nonetheless, it hasn't been many years since she was on the receiving end of workshops in basement rehearsal rooms, as a Yale undergrad...
...Jazz Improvisation, (Third) World Culture and So-Called Performance Art." Tonight is the culminating concert. And in November, Ellis and Wynton Marsalis are coming for a two-day deluge of workshops, master classes, and discussions. In the absence of advanced Jazz courses from the Music Department, workshops like Jane Ira Bloom's and the Marsalises have to work wonders. They seem...
Critically acclaimed jazz musicians Fred W. Houn '79 and Jane Ira Bloom will visit Harvard this week to hold student workshops on improvisational performance...