However, if you read de Chastelain's words across into the IRA's armoury, it is probably safe to assume that he was talking about mortars, rockets, machine guns, rifles and Semtex.
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Following in James's footsteps, Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby" is a pregnancy horror story where the realness of the horror is in question throughout and is all the more disturbing for the uncertainty.
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There is also increasing speculation that the IRA's traditional Easter statement may be conciliatory in tone.
The find provides more evidence that not all of the Provisional IRA's weapons were decommissioned.
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he believed the IRA's statement gave the clarity needed to progress.
Under current law, for example, an IRA's capital gain is treated as regular, taxable income when withdrawn.
The lower minimums, however, also came with substantially higher expenses, which can significantly impact total returns over an IRA's life.
For example, if you leave an individual retirement account to a bypass trust, it cuts short the IRA's income tax deferral.
He said his party had produced a "graduated and proportionate response" to the IRA's refusal to re-engage with the decommissioning body.
In Israel the situation has destabilised beyond belief, in Northern Ireland the opposite has happened with the IRA's landmark decision to start decommissioning.
But Mr Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern, have taken some comfort from the IRA's decision to re-engage with the International Decommissioning Commission.
General de Chastelain said he is disappointed by the IRA's decision.
But the deputy leader of the anti-agreement Democratic Unionist Party Peter Robinson said that to legally satisfy the requirement for decommissioning, the IRA's guns must actually be destroyed.
But shouldn't serious questions be asked about the IRA's ceasefire?
The loyalist group appointed five representatives earlier this week to discuss the issue of arms decommissioning following the IRA's announcement that it had appointed a person to speak to the commission.
The British government - desperate for a deal - pushed him in the other direction, urging him to accept the IRA's offers in an attempt to re-establish the institutions of devolved government.
The suspension move is as a result of the IRA's refusal to decommission arms and the Ulster Unionist position that they can not continue in government with Sinn Fein without terrorists handing over weapons.
IRA's most recent statement is the first sign of a split, a sop to hardliners to reassure them about decommissioning, or an indication that Sinn Fein no longer means what it says, is impossible to know.
Martin McGuinness took a crack at David Trimble for squandering the goodwill generated by the Good Friday Agreement (although he didn't add that the IRA's reluctance to destroy its guns made things tough for the former first minister).
Ministers here did believe - unlike their counterparts in London - that there was real substance in the IRA's last minute statement on putting weapons beyond use, even though it wasn't enough to prevent Peter Mandelson from going ahead with suspension.
That's a torque curve flatter than Ira Glass's delivery.
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The RMD is calculated based on an IRA owner's age (older folks must take out more) and the IRA balance at the end of the previous year.
Excerpted from a recent issue of Ed Slott's IRA Advisor (copyright Ed Slott 2007).
Another benefit: The donation can count as part of the IRA owner's required annual withdrawal.
Mr Paisley also said that an assertion by Culture Minister Michael McGimpsey's that IRA decommissioning had started with the IRA move last October was "a joke".
Children will get an equivalent deduction on their taxes, unless the contribution is used for a Roth IRA. Let's say your child is in the 33% marginal bracket.
At this week's briefing Ira Richter, executive director of IOPS.org, said his organization of ISPs has lined up about 25 people who will be participating in various activities to monitor the date-change transition period.
Bernard Madoff's lawyer, Ira "Ike" Sorkin, declined to say whether he had reached out to his client.
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