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...right about one big thing: Social Security does face a fiscal challenge--one that will be less painful to handle the sooner we tackle it. Though policymakers talk of Social Security as a trust fund (or, in the imagery that Al Gore and Saturday Night Live made famous, "a lock box"), it was enacted as an insurance program in which current workers pay for older generations. Today more than three-quarters of payroll taxes go to pay benefits. With baby boomers getting ready to retire in droves over the next few decades and life expectancies growing, the ratio of workers...
Baseball captivated every fan possessed with a heartbeat this October when the Yankees and Red Sox hooked up in one of the best battles in postseason history, and it has maintained a virtual lock on the back pages of papers across the country ever since. From the continuing drama of The People vs. Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroid scandal, to Pedro Martinez’s ugly departure from the Red Sox to New York, to the Randy Johnson blockbuster, baseball has provided enough controversial, argument-inducing material to make the NFL playoffs seem as compelling as a bocce tournament...
Currently in its second year, the College’s curricular review has been lock-step with HMS with regard to the changes in the pre-med requirements for undergraduates, say administration officials on both sides...
Competitors have tried--and failed--to break Enterprise's lock on nonairport business before. Hertz and Avis as well as Alamo retreated from expansion efforts after underestimating how difficult the local market is. While airport locations simply collect deplaning customers, local shops have to make tough decisions about where to build storefronts. National advertising spurs airport rentals, but generating neighborhood sales often requires a more personal touch, starting with national insurance companies and working all the way down to local operators like Keenan. In the late 1990s, Hertz tried to blanket the country, then pulled back when the company couldn...
...they trust that he won't rock the boat. If Yanukovych seems a throwback to the Soviet era, Yushchenko, 50, wants to bring Ukraine into the free-market age. In opposition, he turned Our Ukraine into a powerful bloc that's threatening to undo the current ruling clan's lock on power...