Word: shore
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SOCIAL SECURITY He considered privatization a way to shore up the system's finances, but recently dumped the idea, saying it would "savage" the program. He supports Gore's plan, but he also wants to look at raising the eligibility age and the payroll tax, and adjusting the cost of living index...
SOCIAL SECURITY Calling Bush's privatization plan "risky," he says he will shore up the program by using the surplus and paying down the debt (which could save $200 billion a year in interest). Like Bush, he has a private savings plan, but his is paid for out of general revenues...
...zero for both parties' summer sales event, I'm beginning to feel like a tennis ball. If next week's polls show Gore's pulled even, then I'll know I'm not alone in feeling that the ball's in Bush's court now. But if W. can shore up a few nagging questions, he could still put this thing away. What Gore did this week is define his plans, down to the last new cop on the street, and make himself a viable alternative to change...
...zero for both parties' summer sales event, I'm beginning to feel like a tennis ball. If next week's polls show Gore's pulled even, then I'll know I'm not alone in feeling that the ball's in Bush's court now. But if W. can shore up a few nagging questions, he could still put this thing away. What Gore did this week is define his plans, down to the last new cop on the street, and make himself a viable alternative to change...
...President is going to stay close to his rocky shore in Kennebunkport, Me., in this campaign and pick up the phone when his son calls, which is almost every day. Some of the media will probably go nuts believing the deposed king is in a sinister power push for glory. But as much as anything, the talk will be about how the striped bass are running off the Maine rocks and how much water has collected in the new seven-acre lake built on W.'s Texas ranch. "It's beautiful," injects Barbara. "It has a river running through...