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...focus needs to be on feeding people who go to bed hungry, on providing primary education to girls and boys, on healing people with AIDS, on addressing tuberculosis and malaria, on sustainable development. That ought to be the primary focus...
...giving a urine sample is often called an IQ test: Any reasonably intelligent druggie can pass it. And unless the law requires them to, most companies don' t randomly test employees for fear of undermining morale. "If we do a good job of hiring the right people, we ought to trust them," explained Dr. Ron McKinley, vice president of human resources at Cincinnati Children' s Hospital, which like most hospitals is required by law to do pre-employment testing and to randomly test workers in safety-sensitive jobs such as truck driving...
...replied, "I do not." When no soldiers confessed, he called it a "conspiracy of silence." The President agreed, and with no trial ordered on Nov. 5 that 167 of the soldiers be discharged without honor, pension or benefits. "Some of those men were bloody butchers," he later remarked. "They ought to be hung...
...billion? That's the dilemma. Surely it is not politically feasible to talk about university fees. We're hearing more and more people talking about it, on the right and the left. Can universities really become a motor of change for France? They can, but I think we ought to be demanding more in primary and secondary education, too. The French are ready to demand more of ourselves in general. There's a real problem at the foundation of our society. To catch up we need a President and Ministers and intellectuals who want to listen. Prime Minister Dominique...
Every financial decision ought to be taken with a wary eye toward the future. New college grads ought to think twice about taking a job offering low current but high future wages. Those future wages may not materialize and may be taxed to death. Middle-age and middle-class workers should consider contributing to Roth rather than conventional IRAs. The conventional IRA lowers your current taxes but raises your future taxes, including taxes on your future Social Security benefits. New retirees should consider cashing out their 401(k)s early and delaying receipt of Social Security. That dramatically raises Social...