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...benefits Social Security benefits are available to anyone, but should the safety net protect those who don't need it? Means testing would limit benefits for the wealthy by eliminating them above a certain threshold or reducing them as income or assets rise. That would reduce the benefit burden but could weaken support for the program. A wealth threshold might tempt people to hide assets and create a disincentive to save...
...emotional crisis is really required. It's the simple detail of Howie's day-to-day measured existence that propels this book forward. It's enough that King etches so expertly the fine filigree of the man's resignation and pain, his awareness of the "burden of my dullness"--which the reader understands is just the world's inability to find its way into his steady, lustrous stream of consciousness. At one point, trying to muster sympathy for Sylvia's addiction, he recollects his own druggy days. "For a moment, I recall those spectacular arcs of time when...
...Sosland Family Professor Mary M. Gaylord doubted the feasibility of such a plan. “It would place a burden on the House system that, without a radical reorganization, would not be possible to absorb,” she said...
...characteristic steadfastness has produced definitive results: Summers should be lauded for his leadership in the new financial aid initiative, which significantly eases the tuition burden on low-income and middle-income Harvard families. We can fairly assume that he was similarly instrumental in the University’s recent decision to match the contributions of Harvard affiliates for tsunami relief in Southern Asia. All the while, Summers has presided over an endowment increase to the tune of several billion dollars...
...characteristic steadfastness has produced definitive results: Summers should be lauded for his leadership in the new financial aid initiative, which significantly eases the tuition burden on low-income and middle-income Harvard families. We can fairly assume that he was similarly instrumental in the University’s recent decision to match the contributions of Harvard affiliates for tsunami relief in Southern Asia. All the while, Summers has presided over an endowment increase to the tune of several billion dollars...