Word: accountant
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...some sense of the responsiveness of our politicians, as well as the limited role of contributions, consider Social Security and Medicare. These programs account for 35 percent of the federal budget, with an annual price tag in excess of half a trillion dollars. Many consider the spiraling cost of these entitlements a textbook case of special interest influence run amok...
...Clinton about his sexual history. But none of this may be admissible in court. When the Supreme Court ruled unanimously last year that the Jones case could go forward while Clinton was in office, the Justices also indicated that the trial judge could make decisions that take into account the fact that the defendant is the President. For instance, questions that seem designed just to embarrass him politically could be ruled out of bounds...
That is David's account of how he ended up at Tranquility Bay, and it's at the heart of a lawsuit asking a court to order him returned to California over his parents' objections. David's case, on which a superior-court judge in Oakland is expected to rule this week, pits the civil liberties of a teenager against the right of a parent to decide how to raise a child. It also shines a spotlight on the shadowy world of for-profit "attitude adjustment" camps and schools. Some parents who have resorted to such programs say their intensive...
Maybe that's because, by his account, she has already made a haul in excess of $10 million, even though, in the opinion of her coach, Evy Scotvold, "she didn't come off looking very good" after making some "terrible mistakes." Scotvold says Kerrigan should have been home resting after the Olympics rather than coming off as bratty in public appearances she was too exhausted to make. He mentioned the infamous Disney parade in which Kerrigan shared a float with the famous rodent and accurately confided, "This is so corny...
...long-term consequences will be? Like the programming changes needed to adjust computers to the year 2000, unexpected difficulties lie ahead of us. As has been pointed out by anthropologists, the tools we use to shape the world shape us reciprocally. Computer programmers have not taken this into account. The results will be a modern Tower of Babel: an avalanche of improperly understood information producing increasingly serious errors, messed-up minds and even economic catastrophe. DAISY SWADESH Farmington...