Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...action comes in various forms. There are basic bets like win, place and show, which correspond to a horse's running first, second or third. Then there are the "exotics," like the exacta and trifecta, which are bets on the first two and first three runners, respectively. On the last race of each day's card, every track offers a superfecta-picking the first four finishers, in order. Nearly impossible to hit, the super inevitably pays off at better than $1,000, and I've seen it go as high as 50 times that. On Feb. 4, a full-time...
...RANDY: Last year I started a new community service group called BASIC. But this year, I wanted to explore more options and I got involved with HRDC and did one show last semester called Bacchanal. And, I got cast in two shows this semester--Troilus and Cressida and something called The Limp Dick Dialogues which is a creative effort in response to the Vagina Monologues. I am also a business assistant in the Hasty Pudding...
...source also said that teachers will be given individual accounts of several hundred dollars for buying classroom supplies. This addresses a long-time complaint of parents in the district that classrooms lack basic school supplies, like tissues and construction paper--supplies many teachers found themselves paying for out of their own pockets...
Taking possession of employer shares can cut your tax bill. When you eventually sell, the profit is taxed as a capital gain at 20% for most people. An IRA distribution, on the other hand, is taxed as income--at up to 39.6%. Basic math, gang. Here are questions from my mail and answers, with an assist from Ed Slott, editor of Ed Slott's IRA Advisor. Ed has more on his website at irahelp.com To read my earlier column, see time.com/personal...
...Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse) (Basic Books; 418 pages; $25), David Frum revisits, with a good deal of wit and a surprising ambivalence, what he calls "America's low tide." Popular memory tends to conjure the '70s as the bummed-out, banalized aftermath of the '60s, which were the authentic circus. Frum has a more interesting take. He considers the '60s, for all their noise and flash, comparatively inconsequential. "But the 'social' transformation of the 1970s was real and was permanent," he says. It left a country more dynamic, tolerant...