Word: set
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...hiccups, or so-called "emergency" spending increases, or something unexpected simply comes up, that $3 trillion evaporates pretty fast. So why can?t I say no to both? That?s what Alan Greenspan said to Congress last week, although neither side seemed to want to hear it that way. Set the surplus aside, said Sir Alan, because it?s not even paper money yet, and because Americans might really need a tax cut someday. (Oh ?- and he really hates inflation...
Prodded in part by pressure from Davi and his supporters, Brazil in 1991 set aside 36,000 sq. mi. as a Yanomami homeland. Now mining interests and loggers want the territory cut into patches totaling 7,700 sq. mi. "They want us corralled like animals," says Davi. So when the radio in his hut calls him to a new battlefront, Davi is ready to go, no matter how far it takes him from the spirit world of forest and river...
...small enough to slip through the meshes are killed at once. Larger fish are impaled on the screens and killed or maimed. Riverkeeper has forced Indian Point to install $25 million worth of fish-saving equipment, and in 1994 the group successfully sued to make the Environmental Protection Agency set official safety standards for power plants...
That she does--desperately. The Indian government launched a program to restore the river in 1986. In Varanasi--where 60,000 people gather daily, most for a holy dip--pumps were set up to divert sewage to a new treatment plant downstream. The pumps often stop because of electricity shortages, however, and the treatment facility is ineffective...
...nonspouse beneficiaries to roll the accounts over. The maneuver can spare your heirs a hefty tax bill by avoiding the customary one-time cash-out. Naming another beneficiary will not extend the life of the account, and payments must be distributed at least as rapidly as the pace set by the original owner, regardless of who receives the cash...