Word: busting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police last week spotted a student in the bushes with a bust of John Harvard...
...Harvard first-year was stopped by police officers after stealing the plaster bust of John Harvard, valued at $250, from the Freshman Union fireplace as a prank in the early hours of Tuesday morning, police said yesterday...
...into a full-fledged political dogfight this week,TIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratanreports. On Tuesday, the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee will fire the first shot, summoning Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, who signed a federal report stating that the Medicare system will go bust by 2002, and demanding timely congressional action. The Republicans plan to ask her what the Administration would do to prevent the collapse of the Medicare system. Ratan notes that slashing Medicare spending or raising taxes would seem to be the only two solutions. President Clinton plans to fire the next...
While Henrie's room is guarded by the noble bust of Dante, the room of Jay Phelan, Pforzheimer House resident tutor in biology and head TF for Sex, is adorned with a "radical" surfboard. Questioned about it, Phelan says, "Maybe students who are less intense can identify with me." While Henrie is busy on the squash court, Phelan is organizing kayaking and skiing trips with his wife Lisa, whom he deems "the cooler tutor." Dave C. Doodnauth attributes Phelan's charisma to the fact that "he has that West Cost flavor...
...double whammy as a result of the baby boom. Beginning around 2012, and extending over more than a generation, the boomers will be retiring by the millions each year. As they leave the work force, they will be replaced by the much less numerous members of the baby-bust cohort, born between 1965 and 1975. By year 2030, there will be only two workers to support each pensioner-and at current rates of tax and benefits, it can't be done...