Word: basics
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...billion in 1987 to $134 billion in 1993. Without Social Security's extra padding, however, lawmakers would be forced to admit an unpleasant reality: the deficit resulting from all other Government programs will actually grow from $170 billion in 1987 to $231 billion in 1993. Says Bosworth: "The basic budget deficit is getting worse, not better." As long as income from Social Security taxes makes the gap look smaller than it really is, Congress may never come to terms with the deficit...
...rules of thumb that govern emergency medicine, one of the most basic is to get the patient to the nearest hospital -- and fast. More and more, however, that precept, designed to save lives, has gone awry. In medical centers and hospitals across the country, disorganized, underfunded and understaffed emergency services are on the critical list. In Chicago not long ago, a fire-department rescue team rushed a 19-year-old gunshot victim to a nearby hospital emergency room unfamiliar with such cases. Within hours the patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff...
...need quick problem-solving ability and you have to be what I call, `witty with numbers,'" Kraus says. "The basic skills that the Kennedy school teaches--statistics, applied economics and policy analysis--are very helpful...
Beyond the power and slam, the appeal of boxing may just be its simplicity. It is so basic and bare. In a square ring or vicious circle, stripped to the waist and bone, punchers and boxers counteract. Tyson is already the first, and potentially the second, so the eternal matchup of gore and guile doesn't just occupy him outwardly, it swirls inside him as well. Modern moviemakers are good at capturing the choreography of fights -- they understand the Apache dance. But in their Dolby deafness they overdo the supersonic bashing and skip one of the crucial attractions: the missing...
Like many gardeners, I am rather a bungler. I know very little about pH soil tests. I think I know how to prune a rosebush, but the rosebush may think otherwise. I learned from my father the basic rules of mulching and thinning -- how to stake out the tomatoes, how to make the peas climb up the chicken wire, how to bind up the raspberries -- but the techniques that worked in the fertile hills of Vermont do not necessarily work in the sands of Long Island. Most important of all, I do not have the time (or the energy...