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...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...
Unlike CBS, which fought off Turner, financially strapped MGM/UA welcomed his offer, which amounted to $29 a share for the diversified entertainment firm. As a condition of the sale, TBS will immediately recoup about a third of the purchase price by spinning off United Artists for $470 million and selling it back for $9 a share to Financier Kirk Kerkorian, who owns 50.1% of MGM/UA's stock. The slimmed-down United Artists will have few assets other than its film library. In contrast, MGM will retain its extensive film and TV production and distribution operations, including the 24 sound stages...
Richard goss / anglia press agency After decades of experimentation, the world's first black hyacinth, Midnight Mystique, has arrived. The three "ancestor" bulbs whose genes helped create the dusky shoot of bell-shaped florets were bought for over $93,000 each. But the fashionable flower promises to recoup that investment and then some. Bulbs will sell for $15 each - over 10 times the norm for hyacinths - and gardeners worldwide are already clamoring for the dark side of the bloom...
...long-term stays, the price rises to accommodate requests like moving furniture, and Burnett said she expected to recoup the costs of renovation within a year...
...cost the state government anything for the first five years. This has won the support of deficit-conscious Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Once funding of research has begun, California retains the right to share in royalties. Additionally, if stem cell research reaches its potential California could easily recoup its losses by cutting its $110 billion annual health care spending...