Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...message to locals that is a delicate mix of dire warnings and creative alternatives. Unless you take steps now, she says--use natural fertilizers, market the cerrado's evergreen flowers and fruits, or turn county-size chunks of the region into nature parks for tourists--your children will inherit a wasteland. The message seems to be getting through: in and around Alto Paraiso, a fourth of the residents live off enterprises that don't involve trashing the land...
...choice a Harvard student makes between eating at Dunkin' Donuts or Au Bon Pain, or the choice a local resident makes between unemployment or a low-wage, dead-end job at either franchise. Ec 10 encourages students to ignore the glaring fact that different members of this society inherit different levels of opportunity and access to privilege, differences which have nothing to do with the "free" market mechanism...
...Powers put it in a Feb. 1 article in The New York Times, "Arena rockers gave their male working-class fans a way to believe in themselves when others degraded them; today's alternative rockers express the doubts of young middle-class men about the power they inherit...
This is clearly not the right attitude. If there really was something to fight for, it must be college students who speak out and storm University Hall. The reason is clear: we are the next generation, the people who will inherit the policies and practices of today's bureaucrats; we must vocalize our disapproval because no one will do it for us. History teaches us that this is true. When the Vietnam War threatened their lives, students burned draft cards; when blacks were fighting for their civil rights, students marched on Washington. And activism has not only been anti-establishment...
...Social Security Trust Fund was an asset, but it is not; there is nothing there which will help you pay off future social security payments. The "Trust Fund" owns nothing but U.S. government bonds which you will have to raise the money to pay off. You will thus inherit a large amount of federal government bonds that you will have to pay off yourselves. We don't even pay the interest on those bonds but instead pay the interest by additional federal bonds that you will also have to repay...