Word: spreading
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...balancing the budget might lead to lower interest rates, helping anybody who borrows to buy a car or house. Fannie Mae estimates families might save $100 a month on each $100,000 borrowed. A strong case could be made, too, that adopting the recommendations of the Boskin Commission would spread the pain of balancing the budget as widely and mildly as possible. The elderly would still have their Social Security pensions raised next year, though by an average $13 a month rather than $21. A median family of four would pay $37 in extra taxes the first year, according...
Boskin and colleagues figure the real cost of living in 1996 rose only about 1.8% rather than the 2.9% CPI increase that next year's Social Security pensions will be based on. That may seem small, but spread over trillions of dollars in government spending--about a third of which is increased in tandem with the CPI--and compounded over the years, it adds...
...Anyone in politics must have his priorities," Djindjic told TIME last week. "My priority is to have support in Serbia. The other is to have support in the West." An impish smile spread across his face. "Sometimes," he added, "these priorities conflict...
...simultaneous information requests from all over the world. "The Internet is exploding, and the church has got to be there," says Sister Judith Zoebelein, the American-born nun who runs the site. "The Holy Father wanted it." Indeed, the Pope, who has always looked for innovative ways to spread the word, including travel, books and even records, was writing as early as 1989 about the opportunities offered by computer telecommunications to fulfill the church's mission, which he called the "new evangelization...
...these elaborate Bibles circulated in Europe (mostly among the landed elite, since a single copy cost more than a peasant's lifetime earnings), they spread more than the word of God--they also set, in their rudimentary way, new technological standards. Georgetown professor Martin Irvine calls this manuscript culture "the first information age." He explains that "it was the first time a whole civilization configured around a standard technology for recording and distributing information...