Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, an alternative solution exists: we can move toward a "fully-funded," privatized system. Individuals could direct a portion of their payroll taxes to their own retirement accounts. They would have the opportunity to invest their savings in stocks and bonds. When individuals retire, they would draw their benefits from their own accounts. In other words, retirees would receive a portion of their benefits from their own savings rather than from payroll taxes on younger generations of workers...
...firm. "The cybermoney revolution makes some forms of tax evasion very easy." And these innovations even call into question the role of the Federal Reserve as arbiter of the nation's money supply. "The more such innovations succeed, the less the public has to rely on central banks as direct sources of exchange media," University of Georgia economics professor George Selgin has written, "This seems to me to be particularly obvious in the case of E-money...
...three decades, beginning in the late '50s, the resources and extensiveness of the intramural crew program declined significantly, until House crews disappeared from the intercollegiate competition scene. House boat launches were removed, and the construction of Memorial Drive barred direct river access from the Houses. The last recorded mention of the Harvard-Yale House-College race was in 1958. A Brief History of House Crew...
...either "rummage through rubbish heaps" or seek a job with "some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway)." Almost all garment factories, globally, manufacture clothes primarily for "Western" firms--the kind that are Harvard's licensees--whether those factories are owned directly by the firms, or whether they are merely "subcontractors" who sell the clothes they make to those firms. With our proposed Code of Conduct, it is not a question of "swaying" these factories via Western "public opinion;" it is rather a more direct matter of setting specific standards for all these...
...address eating disorders, body image and self-esteem is usually pretty depressing," Bagneris said. "This is a direct-action approach where women can have fun and make a statement...