Word: limiters
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...would lower guaranteed benefits to what could be financed out of the remaining 10.4%. Feldstein has an even better idea: keep present tax and benefit rates but have the government deposit into individual accounts an additional 2% of each worker's earnings, up to the prescribed annual taxable limit. On retirement the worker would repay Uncle Sam $3 of every $4 he or she had in the account. Taxpayers under this scheme might earn somewhat less, in total, than under Moynihan's plan--though that one-fourth share could add up over decades. On the other hand, they would...
Though the U.S. military had imposed a minimum flight altitude limit of 2,000 feet for planes flying out of the Aviano air base, and though the plane flew much lower than that (the pilot said the altitude gauge had malfunctioned), ?one of the things that came out of this accident was the crew?s assertion that they had never heard of the 2,000-feet limit,? says Thompson. The Pentagon, which now relies heavily on Aviano for NATO's Kosovo campaign, has since redoubled its efforts to ensure that safety guidelines for pilots in Italy are made clear...
...representatives from various University committees reported on their recent activity. The library committee reported that Langdell Library at Harvard Law School (HLS) plans to limit library access during the HLS exam period as law students felt that there were too many undergraduates flooding the library. Langdell will be closed to all students not in the law school from now until the end of the HLS exam period...
...added, though, that this federal action would benefit students more than past legislation, which instead increased the Stafford loan limit. If the government had increased students' Stafford loans--which are interest-free until six months after graduation--Harvard would still have decreased the need-based grants it offered...
...Harvard students are at least indirectly impacted by the decision because the alternative was to increase the loan limit," he said...