And the IRSseems to be tolerating donor-friendly manipulations of charitable trusts it once would have frowned on, such as investing in variable annuities to game the timing of income.

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Most criticism of the app, which is available for the iPhone and the iPad, focused not on the content of the game but on the timing of its release.

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But collectively, these factors might reduce overall economic impact by 1-3% this year, as opposed to the 5-10% it may have fallen if Tiger was on top of his game physically and mentally AND if the timing of the announcement pre-dated the event by several months.

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