Word: corrects
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...edition of the "Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs" is a swamp of data which is only useful it if it turns out to be correct. There is no evidence that most of the assumptions are accurate any more than there is proof that the new federal budget and its forecast deficits are accurate. The White House recently changed its deficit projection for the next fiscal year by $89 billion. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...exhausted its reserves in 2017 and that the Social Security trust fund will be in the same position in 2037. The report for the two funds makes an attempt to project income and expenses for the funds from 2009 to 2018. While it is improbable that the numbers are correct, a forecast that makes a prediction for a period of a decade could be, if well argued, plausible. But, to accept the results of the report, anyone looking at it would have to believe that the trustees have the capacity to have an accurate picture of the economy seventy-five...
...Putting the public on notice that it faces a sharp diminution of critical social programs based on data which will need to be correct 10, 40, and 75 years from now is an example of why citizens and taxpayers often ask how the government bases financial decisions on opinions offered by people who spend years in windowless rooms. In those rooms, they evaluate data and change it as they get new pieces of financial information, some of which requires subjective interpretation. Economists and actuaries do not like being told that their forecasts are likely to be less accurate than those...
...casualties if the Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam continued their fight to the death with thousands of unarmed people caught between them. No one paid much heed to the desperate warnings except for the relief agencies themselves, and on Sunday, they appeared to prove correct...
...Osburn is correct; while it would indeed be ideal to have a sexually and racially balanced court, concern for diversity should not compromise the ideal of meritocracy...