Word: earns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quietly counting on Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to stave off an actual default through internal bookkeeping changes--and last Wednesday he came through. He used an arcane process called "disinvestment," which enabled him to shift tens of billions of dollars from two interest-bearing retirement funds into accounts that earn no interest. Then he extended ious guaranteeing federal workers that the principal and the lost interest would be repaid. Conveniently, those ious don't count against the $4.9 trillion debt limit. Through all of this, Wall Street remained remarkably calm. Despite some rumblings that Rubin's action might...
...SIMPLE LIFE'' [SOCIETY, Nov. 6] was a sarcastic, bitter and misleading denigration of a positive, empowering and growing movement toward living a less complicated life. Simplicity isn't just a "new fad,'' but its time may have come. A growing number of people are realizing that working more, earning more, doing more and owning more do not result in greater happiness or an increased sense of well-being. It's been said, "We are spending money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like.'' Voluntary simplicity, living a life that...
...leaders have avoided not only the real pain that might be suffered by the needy who are dependent on federal social programs, but the spectacle of a lot of government-run operations growing seedy while federal employees were off duty. West Point cadets, for example, will not earn the sobriquet "The Longhaired Grey Line" after all, now that their barbers are manning the chairs again. Keeping the West Point grounds decently manicured during the shutdown was not a problem, since a blanket of snow had covered the heights above the Hudson River...
After falling to the host Tar Heels in a hard-fought match, Harvard struggled to a 2-2 tie with the College of Charleston, twice coming from behind to earn the draw. Junior Will Kohler proved himself the team's most potent scoring threat, netting the tying goal in the 76th minute...
Today any mogul can see the smart arithmetic in films of low to medium budget that earn medium to high grosses. "When an action movie costs $60 million and then tanks," says actress-director Jodie Foster, "the studio takes a huge bath. But if you make reasonable films about people and how they relate to one another and the weird adventures they get into, you're actually taking a very good risk...