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...specifically for retirement than ever before. But the past year has shown that even with our added savings, we are at much greater risk today of our bank accounts running empty than when employer-guaranteed pensions were the norm. By Munnell's calculations, 44% of all Americans are in danger of going broke in their postwork years...
...arguments for that." Echoing that sentiment, Jan Arild Snoen, columnist for the conservative Norwegian website Minerva, said, "To award the peace prize to a sitting president during a war which he not only supports but actually wants to increase troops for, is very peculiar. I think there is a danger that it will make Norway look silly...
...there are surely more callouses on his lips than his hands. He, like every new President, has reckoned with both the power and the danger of words, dangers that are especially great for one who wields them as skillfully as he. A promise beautifully made raises hopes especially high: we will revive the economy while we rein in our spending; we will make health care simpler, safer, cheaper, fairer. We will rid the earth of its most lethal weapons. We will turn green and clean. We will all just get along. (See pictures of eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...strong doubts from Congress and the U.S. military, he ordered a "surge" of nearly 30,000 more troops in and around Baghdad, and their deployment helped calm the country. But there were a couple of differences: first of all, Iraq was Bush's war and he was in danger of losing it. Perhaps more importantly, Bush was nearing the end of his second term, meaning - electorally, at least - he had nothing to lose by upping the ante...
...independent," a Rwanda human-rights researcher, who did not wish to be named because that is their organization's policy, tells TIME. "Judges are being told how to decide cases; they don't always have the freedom to decide cases on the evidence." In addressing old injustices, the danger is always that new ones will be created...