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Mercer analysts attribute the developments mainly to the collapse of the equity market, in which many U.S. pension plans are invested. But pension funds are being hit on the other side of their balance sheet as well, as declining yields on Treasury bonds swell the size of their pension fund liabilities...
...More program cuts seem inevitable as states are squeezed by rising costs for health care and education on one side and falling revenue on the other. According to a November survey of legislative fiscal officers included in the report, 18 states are seeing personal income tax come in below target, 26 states are watching sales tax fall below forecast, and 21 states are finding corporate income taxes to be less than what they expected. "State lawmakers knew that revenue growth was slowing, but no one could have foreseen just how dramatically the situation would change in a few short months...
...because reviewers found it too bleak for a light comic operetta. “In today’s cultural climate, a song being too dark is not a good reason to not do it,” Morris says. “The song emphasizes the more serious side and the social commentary of the show.” Morris and Miller are also hoping to bring back the classic Gilbert and Sullivan tradition of encores, or repeat performances of the most popular or exciting songs that get progressively faster and more difficult...
...Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady Ashley, she’s got Wolverine—uh, I mean Hugh Jackman—on her side. He plays a rough-and-tumble Australian cattle drover who works for no man but himself and shirks responsibility. Jackman’s drover is such a one-dimensional character that his name is simply “Drover.” Along with a young, half-Aboriginal, half-white...
...problems.” THE BRAIN AND THE BELLYThere is no shortage of opinion on how a food studies curriculum should look if it were to become an acceptable discipline under the umbrella of FAS. Haber contends that any food-related undergraduate curriculum cannot be divorced from the practical side of food. “You’d have to know how to make it. You’d have to eat it,” she says. “You can’t completely intellectualize food and know what it means.”Gilberti suspects...