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...estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement," fretted Illinois representative Ray LaHood. Added Indiana representative Mark Souder, "If the impression comes out that we're into Social Security but not admitting it, that's almost worse than [spending the money...
...should come as no surprise when, in the next few weeks, there's a buzz in the air about the impending Y6B. (Note the catchy name, just short and cutesy enough to rank in pop-culture significance above the number of home runs that Sammy Sosa has to date but below that other infamous abbreviation, Y2K.) For the uninformed, Y6B is what interest groups have begun to call October 12, 1999, the date when the United Nations Population Fund estimates that the number of humans on this earth will rise above the six-billion mark...
...Rank, in a survey of college freshmen, of "losing my virginity" when asked what was the biggest event in their lives...
...Rank of the fall of the Berlin Wall...
Administration officials at several schools have recently begun to question to methodology used by U.S. News & World Report and other systems that rank colleges, accusing the magazine of shuffling the rankings each year in order to sell more magazines...