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...cap his crumbling argument, Evans claims that there was “a lot of misinformation out there” in the weeks leading up to the notorious tailgate. According to the captain, “You can’t tell us 4,000 [people will attend] and have 10,000 show up.” The BPD was also apparently led to believe that there would be “no entertainment, but kids were carrying boom-boxes and singing karaoke.” If this is the case, Evans has every right to be upset with...
...cap was pulled low to shield eye-blackened cheeks, and Harvard was in the frantic stretch of an Ivy title run, a time when eight months of exhaustion and irritation and monotony condense into eight games of ecstasy. And through it all, the shortstop was making history, one sweet swing and hurried home run trot at a time...
...proves to be accurate, there is no need to privatize Social Security. As Democrats and some Republicans have consistently pointed out, a modest correction in the formula for Social Security can overcome the deficits predicted, without the need for drastic structural change. Slightly raising the payroll tax, raising the cap on taxable income above $90,000, raising the retirement age, progressively indexing benefits, or a combination of any these will assure the program’s solvency. If the “middle” projection proves true, and Social Security is the Titanic heading towards an iceberg, we suggest...
...there are other possible options to consider. First, people currently pay Social Security tax on only the first $90,000 of their income. We could restore the total wages taxed by Social Security to 90 percent of nationwide earnings (right now they are at 85 percent). If the cap is raised, perhaps phased in over a decade, to $140,000, it would lower the projected shortfall by some 43 percent. Second, we could diversify Social Security Trust Fund investments to get a higher return, which could fix about 15 percent of the problem. Reasonable steps such as these are enough...
Junior Cherie Piper retaliated on the Big Green’s behalf with just over two minutes left in the frame to bring the score to 5-2 and cap off a wild flurry of goal scoring. Piper’s slapper through traffic beat Horak inside the left post for the seventh goal in a shade under 18 minutes. The first period concluded with only 17 shots on goal, seven of which found their way past the goalies...