Word: roth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year is to make sure, where possible, that you don't exceed income limits placed on things like the new Roth IRA and child tax credit. You will also want to pay close attention to the investments you have in taxable and tax-deferred accounts. The lower capital-gains tax rate, which came into play in '97, remains a major planning point going forward...
...ROTH IRA Named for its chief proponent, Senator William Roth of Delaware, this lets you put away as much as $2,000 a year of after-tax money in an IRA. When you retire, you can take the money out tax-free. Contributions are phased out for taxpayers with an annual income of $160,000. Existing IRAs can be converted to Roth IRAs for taxpayers making less than $100,000 a year...
...hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury, murder and three-way sex. "[Neve] makes you care and empathize with her," says Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax, the studio behind the Scream films. Says Peter Roth, president of the Fox Entertainment Group: "She's beautiful but accessible. You feel she could be your friend...
...mothers to stay at home and suffocate children with well-meaning dictums and chicken soup, while wives and daughters had the leisure to morph into superficial, whiny consumers. At least, that was how the situation was presented by Jewish male writers and artists, Davidson noted. The scholar counts Phillip Roth, Herman Wouk and later Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld, among those who introduced and popularized such stereotypes concerning Jewish women in American culture...
...what helped hold together the short-attention-span oddities of his first two endeavors. Now, shocking devices foisted upon this movie's stultifyingly paced plot and Grier's well-intentioned yet boring performance seem instantly tired. At one point, the "sudden shoot" gimmick--witness Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction's poor victim of Vincent Vega's gun and a bump in the road--seems downright offensive, suggesting a world where such cavalier violence on a woman is far more disturbing and sinister than Tarantino blindly intended...