Word: statements
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...account as early as age 62, but that will reduce forever the amount of your monthly benefits. Also, half your Social Security benefits will be taxed if you and your spouse earn more than a certain amount each year, currently $32,000. Get a personal earnings and benefit estimate statement from Social Security by calling...
...full acquittal this week triggers an early Mardi Gras inside the White House, the bitterness among Republicans and disgust among Democrats could become a kind of poison in the system. Clinton's outside advisers are pushing for discretion. Says one: "I hope he just gives a 30-second statement saying, 'I'm glad it's over,' and goes upstairs for a cold drink...
When Monica left her videotaped deposition at the Mayflower Hotel last week, she was her usual Garboesque self: a shock of black hair, a fashion statement and silence. Unlike her pursuers on Capitol Hill, who brake for cameras, she plows determinedly through the crowd--never a comment, never a pose, never a clue. This encourages others to cast her in whatever role suits their favorite story line: starstruck ingenue, thong-flashing temptress, duplicitous home wrecker, innocent victim, Vanity Fair vamp or troubled product of a broken home in need of ministering, the kind only a President can give...
...MEDICAL FRONT: After irate medical professionals objected to the decision to fire George Lundberg, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the A.M.A. said it would allow Lundberg to contribute articles. The editor and the beleaguered organization released a joint statement saying they had "resolved substantive differences...
Ragtime conforms nicely to these standards, while still making a strong statement about the so-called "American Dream," circa 1900. The then-taboo issues of racism, xenophobia, unwed mothers and exploitation of the lower classes, to name just a few of the topics sung about onstage, are brought up with a bit of cliche, but are tackled with honest zeal nonetheless. The plot revolves around three families--one upper-class WASP, one black and one immigrant Jewish--who are striving for success and happiness in turn-of-the-century America, which is offering them as much adversity...