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Council members searched for ways to exceed the $100,000 target, including taking money from the committee fund--which funds council-sponsored events like Springfest--or a special fund of money left over from two years ago when the council found $40,000 that had accumulated because of accounting oversights. That fund now totals only about...
Paying off the debt now enhances the Treasury's ability to borrow later, when Social Security benefit payments will exceed incoming payroll-tax revenues. A smaller national debt also reduces overall demand for credit, pushing down interest rates. This in turn should stimulate economic growth and create jobs, producing more payroll-tax revenue to keep Social Security healthy. Devoting the savings in interest payments to Social Security should extend the program's solvency from...
Harvard matched but did not exceed its benchmark in the category of inflation-indexed bonds--bonds issued by the government that guarantee a rate of return above inflation. Meyer said that while HMC actively trades in the other accounting categories in an attempt to exceed their benchmark, it does not do so in this area...
...report to University officials and alumni, Meyer wrote that over the long term, the University would like to exceed its overall benchmark by 1.5 percentage points per year, much less than the 13.6 percent it accumulated this year. Over the last five years, the University has exceeded its benchmarks by an average of 3.8 percent of the margin...
...Resources are the most immediate obstacle to improved peacekeeping. The U.N. has none of its own, and relies on member states to contribute troops for peacekeeping missions. But even the organization's current peacekeeping commitments exceed the available resources, and member states are reluctant to commit more of their forces. The best military resources are in Western countries whose governments find it politically difficult to risk the lives of their troops in remote conflicts in Africa and elsewhere. That means the U.N. missions often have to make do with military units that aren't quite up to the challenge...