Word: accounting
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...system, no savings occurs in the Social Security system. Payroll taxes are used to finance current consumption by retirees. Moreover, the expectation of future Social Security benefits discourages workers from saving some of their income for retirement. In the fully-funded system, savings accumulates in each individual's account. Savings is important because it fuels investment in plant and equipment. Additional plant and equipment allows each worker to produce more output. In other words, labor productivity rises, and therefore, national output (GDP) rises...
Judging from the caliber of its clientele, Anago has due cause to strut: Yo-Yo Ma--a frequent visitor to the restaurant--was spotted amid the crowd of expense-account diners. Strut it does. In true L.A. style customers arrive at the appointed time of their reservation to be told that their table is being set. Two or three drinks (approximately 30 minutes) later, they are ushered to their seats. As well as allowing customers to loosen their pursestrings (and if the racy behavior that we witnessed was standard, their inhibitions as well) this clever maneuver forces customers to revel...
...Winthrop resident reports that an unknown person took $100 from her ATM account. She says she either dropped her card or someone took it when she wasn't looking...
...account for what happens to someone'smental process," he said. "There is an inevitablemoment of panic...
...addition, he noted that all tenure decisionsnow take into account evidence of a candidate'sclassroom teaching skills--a move designed tolimit the promotion of professors with stellarresearch but questionable lecture-hall presence...