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...definitely going to refence in certain areas as soon as possible, "Keohan said, adding that fences would be placed to divert people from the paths which have already been worn in the new turf...
...major consumer of Iranian oil, has negotiated a long-term deal to buy alternative supplies from Saudi Arabia in return for gold. Since South Africa is the world's largest gold producer and Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter, such a deal would divert much gold away from world commerce and into Saudi vaults, forcing up the price of the metal still more...
...recent roar of jet airplanes over Cambridge is due to icy Canadian gusts that are forcing air traffic controllers at Logan airport to divert the take-off pattern of these planes, an administrator at Massport said yesterday...
...Letting people invest their own money, says Bush, will produce better long-term returns than keeping all Social Security revenues in the hands of the government. So he uses about half the Social Security surplus - roughly $1 trillion - to give young workers the right to divert some of their payroll taxes to private savings accounts. Workers could then invest this money in stocks and bonds...
...trillion-dollar hole By allowing workers to divert part of their payroll taxes to private accounts (Bush hasn't said how much this would be; the fraction his advisers throw around is one-sixth), Bush cuts the size of the social security surplus almost in half, by about $1 trillion. And not using that money for debt reduction adds an additional $300 billion to the government's interest bill. These costs (along with his $1.6 trillion tax cut) mean it will take longer for Bush to eliminate the national debt, leaving less money in the future to guarantee Social Security...