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...young, I didn't know anything about 401(k)s because I don't think they existed. Defined-benefit plans were the main source of retirement. Now they've got what they call defined-contribution plans. Workers are taking aside some of their own money and watching it grow through safe and secure investments...
...Sunnis back into the fold, an Administration official told me, "You've heard about Nixon to China?" It might be more like Michael Corleone to Cuba. And it must be emphasized that any successful Iraqi government remains the longest of long shots-especially with an insurgency that continues to grow more effective and lethal as the months pass. But wouldn't it be deliriously weird if Ahmad Chalabi turned out to be the top guy after...
...negative comment on her-from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white. I think the five- and six-year-old mind-set is very much like that. You just know things very clearly, that as you grow up, get murky. I try to write her in really simplistic, very innocent terms. In that regard, she gets in trouble. She doesn't have a great command of the language yet; she doesn't speak the Queen's English, which I think would be ridiculous for a five-year-old. I just...
...construction costs have changed significantly enough from projections to affect future annual costs of the buildings,” she said.In his e-mail, Kirby acknowledged that FAS would be dipping into its reserves to fund its expansion. That expansion includes the construction, as well as a plan to grow the Faculty to 750 by 2010 from 700 this January.“Looking ahead, as we invest in new faculty and buildings, we will continue to use our existing reserves,” Kirby wrote. “In some sense that is as it should...
...facts about dinosaurs.My Halloween costume was not only easy to make and reproduce year after year. Having been raised on the sound of people greeting my parents as “Dr. Torre and Dr. Torre,” I never doubted that I would eventually grow into my scrubs.But things didn’t happen as planned. I liked freshman biology a decent amount, but I found chem flat-out boring. Physics was painfully entertaining junior year, but I enjoyed history and English much, much more.So in my senior year, encouraged by success on the debate team, I opted...