Company stock plans explained benefits and risks
Kiplinger Magazine outlines five common employee stock plans ESOPs defer profit sharing thrift and stock purchase plans and stock incentive programs. Each plan's risk depends on company strength stock volatility and vesting rules with advice to couple plans with fixed-benefit retirement options and consider tax implications.
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Changing Times
Kiplinger Magazine
Changing Times Magazine
Esops
English major founds career as campus mechanic
Jay Johnson of St. Olaf College blends English studies with hands on work in campus parking lots. The 24 year old, a 1961 Convair van owner, tunes up student cars while pursuing a rigorous schedule of academics. He earns tuition through trades, managers the Pause coffee house, co founded The Neat Guys band, and engages in political party activity. Johnson plans to graduate next spring and emphasizes communication skills as transferable to any field.
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Northfield
Johnson
Rockford
North Hennepin
Jim Lupient
Oldsmobile
Golden Valley
Tom Morris
St. Olaf
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Prenatal reading study shows babies respond to mother voices
University of North Carolina at Greensboro psychologist Anthony DeCasper reports fetuses may show learning from prenatal exposure to voices and even poems. In tests since 1979 mothers reading The Cat in the Hat influenced newborn preferences, while fathers’ voices and heartbeats showed limited impact.
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Greensboro
N.C
University of North Carolina At
de Casper and Associates
DeCasper
Price wars heat up in $1000-and-below home computer market
Price wars split the home computer field as Atari and Commodore push low end deals while Apple II and IBM PC Jr vie at the high end. Macy’s and other retailers offer “Your Choice” bundles with monitors, while prices for 64K memory systems and 64K color graphics vary widely. A reader proposes sorting dates by writing the year in full and separating month and day to aid alphabetical order. Hackers and Steven Levy’s book are noted as shaping the personal computing era and its ethics.
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Larry Blasko
Associated Press
Macy's
New York
Jack Tramiel
Atari
Commodore
HOT CoCo Magazine
CW Communications
Anna M. Reeves
Ephrata
Wash
Steven Levy
Anchor Doubleday
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Baytown
Baytown Sun
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Heby
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Oy Conte
Ninas Kids
San Jacinto Mall
Cedar Bayou Jr. High
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