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...Ronald Reagan last week called it "a political football" kicked around by "demagoguery" and "falsehoods." To one of the President's advisers it is "the most sacred cow we have around here" ... The subject is Social Security, the nation's biggest, broadest and probably most successful social program. To some 36 million people, the Social Security system now provides a monthly check promising that old age, widowhood or disabling injury will not throw them into poverty. To 116 million others who pay Social Security taxes, the system offers assurance that they too will be taken care of when they become...
...victimization to catch the attention of all humanity. It takes a multicontinental cataclysm--instantaneous, catastrophic, widely spread--to shake the world from its self-absorption. The tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near-universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving. Ronald Reagan once startled the U.N. by suggesting in a speech that humanity would unite and forget its petty divisions if we were attacked from outer space. This elicited widespread head scratching, but the point was unassailable: external threats do exactly that--not little green men but forces closer to home...
...retail, the general rule has always been, the more customers, the better. But these days certain companies, like Staples and Best Buy, are concluding that when it comes to profitability, less may actually be more. TIME staff writer DANIEL EISENBERG talked with Staples CEO Ronald Sargent about how this bold marketing approach, among others, is helping the office-supply superstore giant pull away from the pack...
...RONALD SARGENT: I think there is still lots of opportunity in this business. The top three--Office Depot, OfficeMax and us--only have about 20% of the U.S. market. Still, during the dotcom era, investors thought we were growing too fast, and I think Wall Street wanted to figure out who was going to win in this industry. The question for us was, How does a fast-growth company grow up from adolescence to become a little more of a mature company...
...candidates, getting elected is the test that counts. Ronald Reagan did it by keeping things vague: It's Morning in America. Bill Clinton did it by keeping things small, running in peaceful times on school uniforms and V chips. Bush ran big and bold and specific all at the same time, rivaling Reagan in breadth of vision and Clinton in tactical ingenuity. He surpassed both men in winning bigger majorities in Congress and the statehouses. And he did it all while conducting an increasingly unpopular war, with an economy on tiptoes and a public conflicted about many issues but most...