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...were 37 then and had saved $100,000 for retirement, with a goal of $1 million--which would provide you with an annual retirement income of, conservatively, $70,000. You could have figured on retiring in 2011 at the age of 49 simply by contributing the maximum to your 401(k) and socking everything into stock funds growing 18% a year. Today that $100,000 in stocks has probably shrunk to $56,000, or considerably less if you were heavy in tech. And you're two years older. You have lost more than money; you have lost time...
President Bush last week called for doubling the maximum prison term for mail and wire fraud to 10 years. But the problem isn't the length of the sentence handed down for corporate malfeasance; it's winning a criminal conviction in the first place. Financial misdeeds are often difficult to explain to juries, and proving intent is even harder. More money for investigators would help, but the new $100 million that Bush pledged for the Securities and Exchange Commission is not nearly enough for the underfunded agency...
This spring, the committee created zoning for the site that significantly pared down the permissible scale of buildings on the site to a maximum height of 24 feet...
Kimbara and Zhu face a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines...
...takes the bait, Judge Brinkema may have to work hard in the coming weeks in navigating the challenging waters of a trial in which the defendant's competency to defend himself is in question, yet he insists on going it alone even as he plainly hopes to avoid the maximum sentence. But Thursday's courtroom episode appeared to confirm that the "martyrdom" chapter in the life of Zacarias Moussaoui has been closed - even if he's convicted and sentenced to death. Because "martyrdom" by definition involves choosing to die, and Moussaoui is suddenly desperate to live...