Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ourselves up by matching speed at a lower cadence, but we weren't able to follow that up with an all-out sprint," Fallows said. "We still have room for improvement [in sharpening our technique...
...wash. The size of the gap between Social Security tax collections and pension payouts over the next 30 or so years, and how far any specific proposal would go toward closing that gap, are still anybody's guess. And those guesses depend on such variables as the speed of economic growth, the future pace of inflation and the course of the stock market--all notoriously difficult to predict even a year ahead. Estimates clash so sharply as to invite suspicion that they are shaped more by political bias than by analysis...
...calculated, the CPI no longer overstates inflation by a bit more than one percentage point, as a government panel of economists thought it did two or three years ago. But some overestimation probably remains, and could cause trouble in the hardly impossible event that price increases speed up once more. So it would be a wise precaution to decide that if the CPI rises more than 2% in a year, the COLA would go up half a point less. If the CPI rises 2.5%, pensions would go up 2%; a CPI increase of 5% would boost pensions...
...Brown's picked up some speed over the season," Nuzum said...
...terrific screenplay is based on former Harvard expository writing preceptor Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name. Perrotta's writing, crystal clear and incisive, wastes no time on frills; moves at full-speed with the full intention of causing a crash finish. Wisely, the filmmakers have stayed faithful to Perrotta's novel. After all, the storyline sets itself up for director Payne's satiric touch. At Carver High School, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is the shoo-in for Student Council President. After all, everyone is afraid--terrified--to run against her. She's the ultimate overachiever--member of every...