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...That became painfully obvious when news of the misplaced pension accounts broke. The problem arose more than a decade ago when workers at the government's Social Insurance Agency (SIA) began merging the multiple pension streams received by retirees into single accounts with individual identification numbers. In the process up to 50 million names were mistakenly recorded, making it difficult to match payments with people. Though the mistakes occurred under a different administration, and almost all accounts should eventually be joined to their owners, the DPJ used the pension scandal to hammer Abe, who seemed slow to realize its importance...
...find a buyer who can provide the management to take over. We produced the bright officers who are good at numbers and who learned on the job. They did a great job. We don't want to do that anymore. If SIA can be run by some corporate group, we want to get out of it. But who in Singapore? Have we got a Li Ka-shing...
Samuel K. Sia...
...vision, Ray is a thug and a saint: he sells weed to the locals and buys ice cream for the neighborhood kids. Of course Ray will be nabbed, for a minor crime, and sent to the rathole of a D.C. jail. Another new guy, a rich Asian American (Beau Sia, scary and very funny), is so sure he'll be sprung that he spits wild invective at the screws. But Ray knows not to mouth off. Jail for him is a familiar horror: school with the toughest students and faculty...
Even the riders who do ride in shows find the team rewarding for other reasons as well. Some find it teaches them how to communicate better. Sia's co-captain Eric A. Reitman `99, explains the difficulty of getting the horses to know what you want them to do. He says that, "direct communication is, for the most part, impossible. We fall back on a vocabulary of reaction, we cajole, cater, condemn, threaten, punish, forgive, reward, take `face' and deal with egos and attitudes, just as one has to in a social situation with humans...