Word: lock
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...Here?s the problem: Using different accounting and some different assumptions than the Office of Management and Budget used last week in announcing that the budget was balanced and the Social Security "lock box" was safe, the Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday offered a rather more pessimistic assessment: By October that "lock box" will be $9 billion in the red. And that?s if the government doesn?t spend any more than planned for the rest of this - a dubious assumption at this point...
...taxes were calculated and moving the Postal Service from its traditional spot on the retirement fund?s ledger, Daniels? crew came up with a $4.3 billion Social Security surplus surplus. Thanks to this "more accurate accounting," Fleischer was proud to report, the budget would be balanced, and if the lock box got opened it would be the Democrats? fault, not George W. Bush...
...with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week. With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus - the "lock box" - to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity...
...savior of the Palestinians, not least through substantial financial contributions to families of sons "martyred" in the intifada. Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian group who claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage in Jerusalem, actually termed the blast a "gift" to Saddam. Under those circumstances, unilateral separation without agreements that lock the Palestinian state into various forms of coexistence with Israel could be extremely dangerous...
...characters and punctuation. You won't be able to move them, reread them, download them to your Palm Pilot - and you certainly won't be able to lend them to a friend - without their say-so. So many security systems and cryptographic keys are being developed to lock up your favorite authors, it would make your head spin to list them...