Word: america
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...done so already, get started now. Whether you're in the peak earning years of your 50s or well into retirement and trying to make your money last, it helps to understand that the old rules of saving and planning for retirement have been thrown out the window by America's happy boom in longevity. It's still true, as New York City-based financial planner Jonathan Satovsky says, that you should "save like mad as early as possible." But that's where the similarities end between your retirement plan and your parents'. If you quit work...
...used to be that long-term-care-insurance plans were only for older people," says Richard Coorsh of the Health Insurance Association of America. But in 1996, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, a bill making the benefits tax free, a not so subtle endorsement of and push for boomers to buy such policies. On average, a policy that covers $100 a day at a nursing home (with inflation protection) costs just $802 a year for a 50-year-old and $1,829 for a 65-year-old, according to a study of national averages by the H.I.A.A...
...dodged these bullets, but the danger to its economy is far from over. The tremendous appetite of American consumers for imports--an appetite whetted by stock-market wealth--has provided some support for Asia and Latin America. Yet the tiniest perturbation could send the whole economy tumbling, and there are perturbations all over the place. Brazil is just hanging on, which means so is the rest of Latin America. Europe, which suffers from high unemployment, is slowing. And Asia's comeback is predicated on Japan's getting its troubled economy into gear...
Starting with the school's already frightening football coach (Terminator 2's Robert Patrick), a horde of alien parasites rapidly takes over the faculty of a small town high school in Midwestern America. The fun doesn't stop there, of course; these aliens have dreams of world domination--after all the teachers have been "commuted" it's time to conquer the student body. When an alien-possessed history teacher tells his class that today's exam will consist of "writing down the names of all your living relatives," audience members have a sneaking suspicion that these relatives...
Shrier's protagonists, who have grown upcomfortable with secular America despite theirOrthodox upbringing and Jewish schooling, arespending time in Israel after graduation from highschool, theoretically devoted to the study oftraditional Jewish texts. They are exposed to amore radical brand of Orthodoxy, and they do notknow whether change is good, or what change meansfor their unformed identities. Some of the boyschange more than others; some put up a brave frontto protect themselves from change; one boy, it isalleged--and here's the ostensible dramaticmotivation for the play--commits suicide becausehe is confused and distressed by the Yeshivaatmosphere...