Word: peg
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Wilson has been visited by lobbyists for universities and groups who advocate for sufferers of various diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson...
...scales to set things right. That means putting in a little more (higher taxes) or taking out a little less (smaller benefits). The last major overhaul, in 1983, did a bit of both. The plan favored by Bush would reduce benefits by the amount diverted to private accounts, plus peg benefit growth to prices instead of wages. Here are some alternative answers--a proper fix may need more than...
...begun to translate into higher inflation in China. A stronger currency would relieve some of that pressure. And two weeks ago, officials from the Chinese central bank met in the city of Guilin and asked "a lot of questions about what would happen if they ended the dollar peg and instead pegged the yuan to a basket of currencies," says a foreign banker who attended. "I hadn't heard those questions before...
...PEG MANNING Los Angeles...
...ratio below 2. Look for companies growing close to their price-to-earnings ratios. Many banks have forward P/E ratios in the teens (the average is 12 1/2 times earnings for regional banks), though not many grow in the double digits. Focus on banks with price-to-earnings-growth (PEG) ratios closer...