Word: bottomly
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...receipts surpassed benefits in 1985, and the system has been operating at a surplus ever since. The money has been invested in Treasury securities that the Social Security system is supposed to live off in the future. In the meantime, it has provided a significant boost to the federal bottom line for almost 25 years. No more...
...payments on federal debt held by the Social Security trust fund. It's money that Social Security has definitely earned, but it's coming out of the rest of the federal budget. Same goes for employer contributions to Social Security for federal employees, which also boost the program's bottom line but not the government...
...Bottom line: I've allowed myself to be tested any way there is to be tested. I've passed the drug tests. So there's not really much more I can say. If anyone asks me about those things, I guess I'll have to take it as a compliment, because they think I'm that great a swimmer that I'm cheating to swim fast...
...crisis is a good thing. Having hit bottom, Americans have a solid foundation from which to leap upward. After I graduated from college in 1992, a car accident claimed my lower left leg. I chose full-time Paralympic competition in cycling and the Ironman triathlon for the next 15 years. Without the initial physical and emotional pain--followed by years of financial hardship--I wouldn't now be enjoying a new career as a professional speaker. True contentment comes from applying a solid work ethic toward our passions, not from the wealth this also happens to create. Paul Martin, NATICK...
...foreign companies. China was flush with cash and full of optimism--naive optimism, it turned out. Beijing's fledgling sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. poured $3 billion into New York City--based private-equity firm Blackstone in return for a 10% stake in the company--just before the bottom fell out of U.S. debt and equity markets. That deal was followed by a $5 billion purchase of a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley, whose share price has since fallen by more than half...