Word: fixes
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...million in his hedge fund. But because Meyer is no longer an in-house employee, the University will pay him substantially more, in the form of performance fees, for his services. His critics should learn their lesson: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The system was doing very well by any standards; there was no need to protest in the way that they did. We are confident that Mohamed A. El-Erian, the new manager of the endowment, will do a fantastic job in his new post. We hope the Harvard community will...
...BEEN DIFFERENT? My parents and grandparents. We always had a sense of achieving things instilled in us. I've never been on the dole, even when I was unemployed. If your community has a sewerage problem, go away and learn how to become a plumber, then come back and fix the sewerage. It seems simple...
...Bush budget assumes a "patch" to fix the AMT bracket creep, but only for this coming year. In other words, while denouncing the AMT's growing burden as a terrible problem, the Bush budget's long-term numbers count on it. When asked by TIME if keeping Americans from creeping into the AMT would cost the Treasury a lot, Bolten said: "It would increase the deficit. I don't have exact numbers on how large, and I believe even if the Congress were to decide to patch the AMT indefinitely, we would still show a very substantially declining deficit path...
...years later, our newest fix of pessimism. Why? Our economic growth rate is second in the West only to tiny Finland's. It's probably just a symptom of $3 gasoline. Nonetheless, it's back. This time it's not Russia or Japan but other inscrutable foreigners, Indian and Chinese. What was once rather unkindly said about Brazil--"the country of the future and always will be"--I say of them. I'm not worried...
...staffers well versed in the ways of the NSA suspect the agency is doing more than simply listening in on foreign calls to this country; they believe there might be some broader data mining involved. "You could sit down with clever lawyers and figure out a thousand ways to fix the law," says the congressional expert. "But people first need to know what Bush is actually doing, which they really...