Word: matters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrified of having their retirement income depend heavily on the short-term ups and downs of Wall Street. They would have to be guaranteed a fairly high pension still paid out of regular Social Security taxes--currently 12.4% of each employee's wages, split between worker and boss--no matter what...
...life. Brown chanced upon Harris in the school parking lot just minutes before the shooting began. Harris was pulling a duffel bag of materiel from his car; Brown says he didn't know what was in it. He mentioned a philosophy test Harris had missed that morning. "Doesn't matter anymore," said Harris. Brown says he didn't know what that meant--nor what Harris was planning when he told Brown to get away from the school, saying, "Brooks, I like you. Now get out of here. Go home." Others who know Harris believe sentiment had nothing to do with...
...matter what became of the legacy codes, the Clinton Administration stands to pay a heavy price. Republicans are lining up to hammer the White House for the mess. And since Clinton and Vice President Gore have pushed for closer U.S.-China ties, they are also likely to face charges of elevating politics and commercial interests over national security. After White House stonewalling on two other China-related investigations (the fund raising and the technology transfers), Republicans will assume the worst about the Lee case. Says Republican Senator Richard Lugar: "This kind of thing is grist for the mill for endless...
...matter what she did, Cindy Smith just couldn't shed the 60 lbs. she'd gained during her pregnancy nine years ago. She went through over-the-counter weight-loss pills, liquid diets, starvation diets--always with the same result. "I would try it for about a week," says Smith, 38, a customer-service manager at a Houston bank. "I'd lose maybe 5 to 10 lbs., then get discouraged and end up dropping...
Your other bequest may be more useful still--to journalists and everyone else. No life ends on a period, no matter how long it is lived. But your abbreviated life makes one especially aware of how much there is to the unknowable and untidy. In their private hours, your parents will imagine you as a wife, a mother, an actress in the movies or at the village playhouse. For myself, I see you married--as my own daughter was married a year ago--in a church ceremony the antipode of the one you were the center of last week...