Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After having its psyche somewhat bruised on a recent 1-4 California road trip, the Harvard women's tennis team looked to redeem itself last weekend with an impressive opening to its Ivy League schedule...
Good luck, guys. The Federal Government will have long since spent the proceeds. To redeem the bonds, it will have to raise income taxes sharply or slash spending on things other than pensions severely, or borrow the money from the general public and drive up interest rates, or print money and give a big boost to inflation. Or Social Security taxes will have to be raised heavily yet again. (They have already multiplied 10 times since 1950, from 3% on the first $3,000 of a worker's earnings to 12.4% on the first $61,200 of earnings, with employer...
...will that be the end. Assume, for the moment, that the Treasury does somehow come up with the cash to redeem the bonds in the trust fund. Some time around the year 2029, when Generation X starts to retire, the trust fund--even if it existed at all--would be empty. At that point, to maintain pension payments, even at a reduced level, the Social Security tax by some calculations will have to be raised to 17% of wages--a level that would devastate the economy...
...resting up for their next entrance. The strands of the plot come together with annoying cuteness, like a Christmas gift with two many bows tied onto it. First of all, Hatch has a deeper motive in getting the killer. Haunted by his first daughter's death, he wants to redeem himself by saving his other daughter. Secondly, the doctor who knows but isn't telling, the doctor who brought Hatch back to life, is the very same doctor who brought the killer back to life. Then the neatness becomes oh-so-strangling when we realize that the doctor...
...importance. It is the realization that there is nothing Western culture can do to save the Maori from decadence and decay that they could not do better themselves. By first flinging bits of raw, unfiltered indictments of urban life at its audience, "Warriors" depresses the spirit in order to redeem it with a glimmer of hope in the end. While violence serves a dual purpose, to caress the fetish as well as to sicken the heart, it is the latter purpose Tamahori hopes will resonate most deeply with his audiences...