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...British Ex-Servicemen and Family Association of Fiji, says entry tests are getting tougher: "Most of our sons who would like to join can't meet the standard, so they are looking for other employment." Men who join Fiji's 3,000-strong military can double their meager salaries by serving with U.N. peacekeeping missions abroad. Some 600 are currently doing so, 134 of them in Iraq. Fijian blue helmets in the Sinai and Lebanon - where 36 were killed during a 24-year deployment - "were well regarded," says defense analyst Jim Rolfe, of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies...
...Direct investment Allowing Social Security to invest its assets directly in stocks, last proposed under President Clinton, could improve the system's meager returns. But it is risky and ripe for abuse. Another plan, proposed by Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff, would create private accounts but centralize the investing. Everyone would be invested in the same thing: a global, market-weighted index fund run by the government, not Wall Street. Because the fund would track the market, the risks of making poor investment choices would be minimized...
...Crimson held the Blackbirds—a perimeter-oriented squad that usually starts three guards—to a meager 41.8 percent shooting from the floor and just 3-of-17 from behind the arc. On top of that, Long Island committed 22 turnovers, including a season-high 16 Harvard steals...
Harvard held the Blackbirds—a perimeter-oriented squad that usually starts three guards—to a meager 41.8 percent shooting from the floor and just 3-of-17 from behind the arc. On top of that, Long Island committed 22 turnovers, including a season-high 16 Crimson steals...
...expectations on us to come up with some solutions." Money is not the only problem: most food is imported, and last week Adeang learnt that the cargo ship due to arrive this week with supplies of flour, rice and sugar has decided to skip the island because of the meager volume, and won't be back until January. "There will be food shortages around Christmas," he says...