Word: bean
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That's because when the bean counters counted the beans and predicted there would be an extra $1 trillion in 10 years, not counting Social Security revenues, it was assumed that lawmakers would obey the laws they had written and slash future spending by billions of dollars. If lawmakers bail, then there's less extra money to pay down the debt. Republican proposals so far, rather than cutting spending, would increase it next year about $25 billion, which more than wipes out next year's projected $14 billion surplus. The only place to find that money is to raise taxes...
...what happens when they don't work? Several years ago, a company developed a soybean with some genetic threads borrowed from the Brazil nut in an attempt to boost the bean's amino-acid content. The soy began acting like the nut--so much so that it churned out not just amino acids but also chemicals that can trigger allergies in nut-sensitive consumers. The company quickly scrapped the product. Last spring a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest...
COFFEE'S UPS AND DOWNS They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil, and elsewhere, which is why Maxwell House and Folgers are cutting prices 10[cents] a can. But don't expect prices to drip down in specialty coffees anytime soon. Peet's jacked up bean prices as much as $2 per lb. this month, following Starbucks, which raised its drink prices an average of 10[cents] in May. These chains cite tight supplies of labor and fancy coffees. Best advice is to scour the Web. Instead of paying $10 for a pound of Sumatra...
...other hand, say the bean-counters, the same family making $200,000 ?- that?s way above average -- gets $2,720. Hmm. Still not a windfall, but I think you can see where this is going: The higher up the income ladder you are, the more you get -- and it?s only gotten worse for ordinary joes like me since the House and Senate bills were combined. Under the Senate bill sponsored by William Roth (who brought us the laudable Roth IRA), the middle 60 percent of American families, who pay a third of all taxes, would have gotten 33 percent...
...chance to connect in backyards, in living rooms," he said, recalling fundraisers at "barbecues and bean suppers...