But for our purposes, LSD is just an acronym for a plain old boring lump-sum distribution.

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It involves chemists at what is now Novartis not only inventing LSD, but also trying it out.

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In his latest screed, he compared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to someone in the throes of an LSD trip.

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The Bulgarian, who was homeless, has been diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia and, when arrested, admitted he had used crack cocaine and LSD.

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If your employer stock is highly appreciated and the distribution qualifies as a lump-sum distribution (LSD), then you can elect to use the NUA option.

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Once you withdraw the stock from your plan as part of an LSD, you only pay income tax on the cost basis of the shares in the plan.

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Instead, to the applause of the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF and other advisers with Jurassic Park mentalities, Brazil cobbled together a program resembling a pretzel designed by someone on LSD.

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And if the publication of Leary's archive speeds that process up by exorcising a ghost that still haunts LSD research, then the New York Public Library will have done the world a service.

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For example, mohair sweaters from Seditionaries, consciously homely, see millennial descendants in mohair pieces by Junya Watanabe, knitted as if with wooden drumsticks, and Rodarte, crocheted to look like the work of spiders on LSD.

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That's true even if you sell the shares the day after the distribution from your plan, since the rule requiring you to hold the stock more than one year to qualify for long-term capital gain rates does not apply to NUA stock withdrawn as part of an LSD.

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