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...reasons of health - and the fact that nobody, not even Gore, was heard to be able to get along with him - Tony's gone. Enter William Daley...
...defined-contribution plan: employer and/or employee contributes X dollars, fund trustees invest it, and investment performance determines the payout. It's great in an up market, but, says Michael F. Carter, a benefits specialist with the Hay Group, a worldwide human-resources consultancy, "we're beginning to enter what I call the worry period." Older boomers, he says, are right to wonder "what happens if there's a correction in the stock market and it falls off 20%" without swiftly bouncing back...
...with it, a strong chance of intergenerational conflict. "Watch for tension to increase among generations as the boomers enter their late 50s," says Dr. David Reuben, who heads the geriatrics division at the UCLA School of Medicine. Noting that "it costs between $35,000 and $50,000 a year [to support] one person in a nursing facility," a strapped nation will, Reuben concludes, have to choose between caring for its children or its parents. Have you ever noticed how the elderly in your town vote when a proposal to raise property taxes to pay for education hits the local ballot...
With the odds thus stacked against me, I couldn't help being concerned. What does it mean when I'm introduced to three people as I enter a party and find that all their names have flown out of my head before I even reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill...
...have them perform the same set of excerpts from behind a scene, enter via a different entrance and enter the stage walking on a piece of carpet so you can't tell if they're wearing high heels or not," says Jill Woodward, a spokesperson for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...