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...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...
...Security and federal-worker pensions, veterans' benefits, food stamps, subsidized school lunches--that by law are tied to the CPI. Perhaps 3 million workers have union contracts linking future wage increases partly to the index. Taxpayers' personal exemptions, standard deductions and tax-rate brackets are adjusted each year in tandem with the CPI, and the cumulative effect of changing those adjustments could be huge. The extra $37 paid by a median family the first year would grow to $1,755 over 10 years...
...tandem of the Common Application and the Harvard/Radcliffe supplement continues to work well for us," Fitzsimmons said. "[Using it] sends the message that we're not bureaucratic...
...giving block grants to the house committees and on raising the minimum percentage of the council's budget dedicated to grants from 60 percent to 65 percent. The 4-3 decision of the executive board overturned a decision made Friday night in favor of holding the referenda in tandem with the elections...
...rookie Tracy, in tandem with Aaron Israel, led the Crimson to a NCAA berth...