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...long-running Holocaust reparations dispute isn't over yet. Switzerland's three biggest banks decided Friday to offer a maximum of $600 million to settle class actions from concentration camp inmates and their descendants. "By all legitimate criteria," said a joint statement from Credit Suisse, Swiss Bank Corp and Union Bank of Switzerland, "this is a fair offer...
Most baby boomers plan to keep working well past retirement age, according to an A.A.R.P. poll released last week. It's a good thing, since they might not have an alternative. Only 65% of eligible Americans are contributing to 401(k) plans, and just 10% are saving the maximum. Most employers match a portion of contributions--say, the first $3,000--so don't leave that money on the table...
...fund a maximum of one third" of need, Stewart says. "We only fund student groups who have no money or are running deficits, and even the groups we do fund we only fund at [about] one third of their grant request...
...plot to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah building. But Nichols would not provide any answers in the Denver courtroom. The only statements came from victims of the bombing, who once again told the court how their lives had been shattered by the bomb and called for the maximum penalty...
...convinced that California has entered the age of the "virtual campaign," in which elections are won and lost solely in the ectoplasm of television ads. According to this theory, Californians don't follow politics, and the local news media barely cover it--so hiring hot consultants and buying maximum TV time is all that counts. It seemed the primary would be a shootout between Harman, an astute but little-known politician whose campaign is based on equal parts of gender (57% of California Democrats are women) and wealth (her husband, audio-component magnate Sidney Harman, has given millions...