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Bush deserves credit for at least addressing the fact that Medicare is approaching a day of reckoning. As 77 million baby boomers move toward retirement, the government's cost of providing for their health care will skyrocket, to the point where the entire system is projected to run out of money by 2025. Gore has proposed shoring it up with bags of cash--he would add five years to the life of the program by shifting $435 billion from the general budget. The money would pay off part of the national debt, and the future savings on interest payments would...
...Bush deserves credit for at least addressing the fact that Medicare is approaching a day of reckoning. As 77 million baby boomers move toward retirement, the government's cost of providing for their health care will skyrocket, to the point where the entire system is projected to run out of money by 2025. Gore has proposed shoring it up with bags of cash--he would add five years to the life of the program by shifting $435 billion from the general budget. The money would pay off part of the national debt, and the future savings on interest payments would...
Harvard's team and club membership increased along with many others in the country. The combined effect of the swing boom and subsequent Latin craze caused the popularity of dancing with a partner to skyrocket. It not only became clear that Harvard would be competitive for years to come, but that there would continue to be a high level of competition. Prior to the sudden jolt in popularity, other schools had seen their dance programs shrink over the previous five years...
...significant portion of students fail, the dropout rate will skyrocket, and it will be disproportionately students from poorer districts who need a solid secondary education the most. Many students who come to school, pass their classes and fulfill graduation requirements will leave without a diploma, which is a prerequisite to advancement in today's technology-driven economy. There must be some less painful way to improve educational standards in Massachusetts...
Economic self-interest - and a good deal of prodding from a White House worried about spoiling Democratic election prospects in the fall - looks likely to impel OPEC to finally curtail spiraling oil prices. Fuel costs began to skyrocket last March when the group implemented a 7.5 percent cut in crude oil production that was also respected by nonmember oil-producing nations. The Clinton administration has been hands-off until now, saying it'd let the market self-adjust, but prices have just hit a nine-year high - with American emergency crude oil stores at a 25-year...