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...since 1965, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. The official cost over 10 years is $400 billion, but given rocketing prices for drugs, it could well be far higher. At the same time, he has done nothing substantive to reform Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security to avert the looming burden of the baby boomers' retirement years...
...MUST THE U.S. DO TO GET SUPPORT FROM THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND OTHER NATIONS? My sense is that the member states believe there should be a real international effort, both on the civilian part of the operation and on the military side. They believe there should not only be burden sharing, there should also be sharing of responsibility and authority. So the U.S. will have to look at its own approach and decide how much it is prepared to adjust that approach to bring the other nations on board...
...victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. France lifted a threatened veto of the vote after striking a deal with Libya for increased payments to relatives of 170 victims of a French UTA plane blown up over Niger in 1989. Burden of Proof IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency gave Tehran a deadline of Oct. 31 to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, or risk being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. In the past six months, IAEA inspectors discovered a series of anomalies in Iran's purportedly peaceful...
While Kidd may be a highly effective manager, students and administrators say she has two tools that will help ease her administrative burden: committees and delegation...
Ultimately, the brief states, Harvard does not meet the high burden necessary to halt the suit prior to the discovery phase...