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...entrants. (Newer schemes are much less certain, and place all the risk with the employee rather than the employer: what workers take out at retirement depends on how their investments perform.) Experts remain unconvinced that such moves will solve long-term problems. "That solution is a very slow burn," says Raj Mody of U.K. actuaries Hewitt, Bacon & Woodrow. "All you're doing is addressing past promises." Much of the current furor over U.K. pensions grew out of a recently introduced accounting standard, FRS 17, which requires U.K. firms to disclose their pension-fund assets and liabilities. Some fund managers note...
...After the Taliban's defeat in December 2001, Rahim drifted back home to Spin Boldak with no more than five men. But lately, Rahim has grown more dangerous?and apparently much better financed. With cash to burn, allegedly from wealthy patrons of terror in Pakistan, he recruited a band of gunmen from nearby villages?sometimes by force?for a new jihad against the Americans. Rahim's gang planted two explosives in Spin Boldak last month, killing four civilians and injuring scores more. His force swelled to more than 60 fighters, and they raced around Spin Boldak on new motorcycles brought...
...second explanation might be a loss of tiles leading to a burn-through. (The shuttle is covered with heat-resistant tiles to protect the craft and those inside it from burning up in the scorching temperatures caused by the friction of reentry.) But I think that explanation is unlikely, because the tile-loss would have had to have been quite substantial for that to become possible. You'll hear a lot in the next few days about things falling off the shuttle during liftoff. But it often happens that they lose a few tiles, and I'd be surprised...
...proposal issued today, we hope that Romney’s core values are the ones shared by the people of the commonwealth, and that his business background will give him the tools he needs to find creative solutions—not just more of the slash-and-burn cuts we have seen...
NEWSPAPERS Good Luck. Go to hell Peter Goldmark didn't just burn his bridges when forced from his job as CEO of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune - he blew them to smithereens. In a goodbye letter to colleagues he torched his former bosses at the New York Times for ending the IHT as an "independent newspaper, with its own voice and its own international outlook." Goldmark admitted he was breaking the corporate code, under which outgoing CEOs shut up and take the money. "Believe me, I will pay dearly for this, both financially and in other coin," he wrote...