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Opponents argue that the scheme would introduce bad incentives into the system by tempting high earners to conceal income. What some of them would prefer to see is a gradual, across-the-board reduction of benefits. One way that could be accomplished is by ending the special protection against inflation granted to Social Security pensions, which are increased every year to offset the full amount of inflation. Cost of living adjustments in most private pensions and in workers' wages are limited to part, if any, of the annual increase in prices. Why should Social Security pensioners alone be fully protected...
Each side uses excesses committed by the other to justify its own atrocities. "If we don't kill them, they'll kill us," says Major Mohammed, a gendarmerie officer patrolling the streets of Algiers with a unit of "ninjas"--commandos who wear dark hoods to conceal their identity. They are the point men in what has come to be known as the "strategy of eradication," in which armed elements of the Islamic movement are hunted down. Says Mohammed: "It's kill or be killed...
...brave souls to emerge from the huge gay show-biz underground into the glare of publicity and opprobrium. If he suffered a bit less for his declaration than other entertainers might have, it's because his appeal is not primarily sexual; the glitter and sartorial outrage conceal an ordinary, football-loving guy with an extraordinary love of the limelight. For all the tabloid titters, England realizes this; it has virtually made John its official Ambassador of Fun. He has performed for all branches of the Royal Family, and is a favorite dancing partner of Princess Diana. But John says...
Most students walking by the Sackler Art Gallery probably haven't notice the bolts on top of the columns in front of the building. But for Philip A. Rizzo, an independent architect in Cambridge, they are "offensive" and an "urban blight" which the University needs to conceal or remove...
There's only one help for the pencil trade. We must conceal this advancement in mechanical tabulation from developing nations that still rely heavily on No.2 pencils! We'll keep them in the dark ages until some industrial spy manages to squeeze the secret out of a less-than-scrupulous CUE Guide worker. By that time, we'll have switched all those pencil-producers over to defense contracting...