Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PLAY THE STOCK MARKET. By now there is wide agreement that stock and bond markets could in effect pay much of the nearly 30% of pensions that Social Security taxes will eventually no longer cover. But who should invest how much of the system's money? Clinton's proposal to have the government do the investing is a poor second best--and not only because of the danger of political manipulation of business. More fundamentally, individuals ought to have some say in how to invest money that the government taxes away from them. Redirecting some Social Security money into individual...
...merger agreement is not yet complete," Wilson said. "It's a good time to arrange visits to anyone who will listen...
Those who attended the meeting decided to follow Wilson's advice, organizing a lobbying group on the spot to try to influence the final agreement and to e-mail Knowles and Lewis in hopes of arranging a group meeting...
Despite the participants' enthusiasm, Wilson and Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine have both said in the past that the major terms of the agreement have already been worked...
...property confiscated by Rumania's former communist regime and transferred to Orthodox parishes, and also refraining from visiting Transylvania, where the bulk of the country's Catholic minority reside. But the extent of tension between the Rumania's Orthodox Church and its Catholic minority is underscored by a recent agreement that clergy from the two churches would refrain from trading insults and punches. With much of the Orthodox world perceiving itself as under attack in Yugoslavia, the best the pontiff may be able to hope for is to avoid a further deterioration in the relationship. After all, starting over afresh...