FEATURE/HarperCollins: America's Young Adults Not Slackers But Savvy Savers, According To New Survey; Problem Solving Author Responds.

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A recent survey, conducted in early December by Opinion Research Corporation International and commissioned by HarperBusiness to support the ideas expressed by Stephen M. Pollan Pol´lan

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Rather than rushing out to spend their Christmas bonuses on the latest electronic toys, the 18-34 year-old respondents were more interested in learning how to parlay An open programming interface (API) to a service provider's network (the network operator), developed by the Parlay Group (www.parlay.org). By enabling the customer's application to talk directly to the network, it allows the end user to have greater access to network information as well their holiday windfall into a retirement nest egg Nest Egg

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Examples of the purposes for which nest eggs are usually intended include retirement, education, and even entertainment (vacations and cruises). . That's the surprising finding of bestselling author Stephen Pollan, whose THE DIE BROKE COMPLETE BOOK OF MONEY: Unconventional Wisdom About Everything From Annuities to Zero-Coupon Bonds (HarperBusiness; January 1, 2001; $29.95) is the definitive guide to modern financial management. Pollan, along with co-author Mark Levine Mark Levine is the name of:

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, has found that the young respondents (80% of those between the ages of 18-34) are much more likely than their elders to crave more information on financial topics ranging from how to prepare their taxes to how to calculate their net worth to discerning the difference between a stock and mutual fund.

Guess which generation is most likely to ring in the New Year by contributing to their 2000 IRA Ira, in the Bible
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