Word: briefness
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...second major advantage of a fully-funded system is that it provides individuals with a greater rate of return. A brief example, drawn from work by William Beach and Gareth Davis at the Heritage Foundation, will help me to explain this point. Consider an average household consisting of two 30-year-old working parents with children. In today's dollars, that couple will pay approximately $320,000 in payroll taxes over their lifetime, and will receive $450,000 in benefits during their retirement. This represents an annual rate of return of 1.23 percent. In other words, the Social Security system...
...During a brief question-and-answer session as the funding issue was being considered, Noah Z. Seton '00 asked why the Parade of Stars group was seeking $200 for publicity if Kinko's had agreed to provide it services for free...
...Alabama, the new school-prayer bill attempts to skirt those boundaries. The legislation requires "a brief period of quiet reflection for not more than 60 seconds with the participation of each pupil in the classroom." Although the courts have upheld some moment-of-silence policies, civil libertarians say they have struck down laws featuring pro-prayer supporting language of the sort they discern in Alabama's bill. In the eyes of many church-club planters, such fracases amount to wasted effort. Says Doug Clark, field director of the National Network of Youth Ministries: "Our energy is being poured into what...
...intramural crew program declined significantly, until House crews disappeared from the intercollegiate competition scene. House boat launches were removed, and the construction of Memorial Drive barred direct river access from the Houses. The last recorded mention of the Harvard-Yale House-College race was in 1958. A Brief History of House Crew...
...York Times ran a brief today lauding the Glickman decision as "a coup for NYU." In a reference to Waggoner Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro's recent decision to turn down a $300,000 annual salary at Columbia to remain at Harvard, the Times writes, "New York University appears to have succeeded where Columbia University failed...