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| | Boston.com / Business / William Roth; ex-senator fashioned new IRA plan; 82 |
 | | WASHINGTON -- William V. Roth Jr., a Delaware Republican who served for three decades in the Senate, championing changes in tax and savings and lending his name to a popular retirement account, the Roth IRA, died of a heart ailment Saturday at Georgetown University Hospital. |
 | | Senator Roth, who served as chairman of the Finance and Governmental Affairs committees, became one of the key gatekeepers at the intersection of politics and economics. |
 | | He leaves his wife of 38 years, Jane Richards Roth, a judge on the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals; a daughter, Katharine of Washington; a son, William III of Annandale, Va.; and four grandchildren. |
| www.boston.com /business/articles/2003/12/15/william_roth_ex_senator_fashioned_new_ira_plan_82 (882 words) |
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