Word: collectivities
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...read Justin Fox's article with horror [Dec. 15]. The basic premise: a government-run pension is more secure than my 401(k). Curiously, I saw no mention of a current government program called Social Security - one the government has handled so expertly I probably will never get to collect from it. Now those same people think they can do better with retirement funds? It is easy to make decisions when the rules don't apply to you. No members of government will have to worry about their pension or medical care. The market works; government does not. Charles...
...characters on television ... [Henson] understood that viewers would suspend their sense of disbelief if they saw pieces of themselves in the characters. Forgetful Jones had a foible, and he was therefore funny and as recognizable as the elderly neighbor who always seemed surprised when the paper boy came to collect on Fridays. The Count had an obsessive need, and who doesn't? Telly fretted, Oscar kvetched, Ernie teased, Bert was anal, and Grover, like most of us, was, if not always a superhero, certainly above average...
...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have diminished the role of the CIA. It's the military in those two countries that collects the body of intelligence. Pragmatically, it couldn't have been otherwise. A lieutenant leading a patrol through an Iraqi village is much more likely to collect relevant information than a CIA officer confined to an office...
...read Justin Fox's article with horror [Dec. 15]. The basic premise: a government-run pension is more secure than my 401(k). Curiously, I saw no mention of a current government program called Social Security--one the government has handled so expertly I probably will never get to collect from it. Now those same people think they can do better with retirement funds? It is easy to make decisions when the rules don't apply to you. No members of government will have to worry about their pension or medical care. The market works; government does not. Charles...
...migrants who have come to the province (also called Jaén) looking for work, the problem lies not with the harvest, which is thriving, but with the economy, which is not. For more than a decade, Spanish olive growers have relied on migrants willing to beat branches and collect fallen fruit; last year they made up roughly 15% of the seasonal workforce, according to Andrés Bódalo, a representative of the Andalusian Workers' Syndicate. Yet thanks to a looming recession that has pushed unemployment to more than 11%, those migrants are finding the jobs have gone...