Word: companionably
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...year. Take off 1 point, and you cut a third. And that would mean the adjustment in the average monthly Social Security benefit of $698 would be $13.96 instead of $20.94, a loss of about $7. That hardly seems harsh, but it adds up. That fix, along with companion reductions in other programs tied to the CPI, "would save $1 trillion over the next 12 years," says Moynihan. And that, he adds, "would be enough to cut the debt significantly or to spend on those programs we now cut because the first question these days is never 'What should...
Barbie may not be everyone's favorite companion--detractors love to hate her plastic perfection--but the fashion doll with the impossible figure has long been the most popular girl at Mattel. The world's No. 1 toymaker, whose products range from Fisher-Price infant and preschool toys to Disney-licensed characters, gets more than one-third of its nearly $4 billion in sales from the 11 1/2-in.-tall mannequin. Now Barbie, who at age 37 has become the best-selling girls' brand ever, is poised to strut into, and perhaps change forever, the male-dominated world of multimedia software...
...hate him, he stopped composing and tried to avoid the spotlight. He had planned to lay low in L.A. but, instead, ended up doing the one thing in this celebrity-crazed country that, short of a lengthy trial for the brutal slaying of an ex-wife and her companion, would most guarantee that the media glare would find him: he started dating a cast member of the hit NBC comedy Friends. And the cast member Duritz took up with was, arguably, the hottest on the show, or at least the one with the most celebrated hair: Jennifer Aniston...
Brant pauses, grins and points to the tip lying on the table. "Hey," she says to a lunch companion, "let's leave her another buck...
...this medication to our weight-management program. We anticipated the use of Redux as an adjunct to our program long before the medication gained approval from an FDA advisory committee in 1995. When Redux became available to the public in July 1996, we immediately began testing a companion program for those clients who qualify and wish to utilize weight-loss medications. As noted in your article, this type of medication is not a magic remedy for obesity; however, such drugs can help people lose weight and keep it off if use of the drugs is combined with a reduced-calorie...