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...Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and at&t has just been hired to make it even bigger. Will China really have 4 million citizens online by 2000? "Try 20 million," says Zhang, who has watched the government exceed growth targets in everything from telephones to agricultural output...
This business has lots more room for growth. Commissions from electronic trading nearly tripled to $700 million in 1997 and will easily exceed $900 million this year. Forrester Research, which tracks the online industry, expects that the number of accounts will more than quadruple by 2002, to more than 18 million. There are now upwards of 8.4 million active Internet users with portfolios in excess of $100,000, according to @plan, a Connecticut market research firm. "There are huge numbers of people on the Internet with sizable portfolios who aren't yet shopping for stocks and mutual funds online," says...
...much will you have to pay in higher taxes to finance Social Security benefits for the Baby Boom generation? If you think this is an unimportant question for a 20-year-old Harvard student, think again. Without any changes, Social Security benefits are projected to exceed payroll tax revenues by approximately $160 trillion from now until 2075. To maintain the exiting system, our generation will have to bear a tremendous burden in the form of higher taxes during our working years and reduced benefits in our retirement years. In fact, economists estimate payroll taxes may have to rise at least...
...entire $400 sum was then devoted to covering audio-visual expenses, which Powe said would probably exceed this amount...
...lives in prison. In fact, if convicted of killing five and injuring 10, they are likely be out of prison at age 18. In Arkansas children under 14 cannot be tried as adults, and juveniles face a maximum sentence described by state law as "indeterminate," which means not to exceed their 21st birthday. And, says Gerry Glynn, law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "most children are released at age 18 because the state does not have the facilities to hold them longer." (The Justice Department is looking into whether federal charges can be brought against both...