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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year or less. Payments to the better off would be reduced on a sliding scale starting at 7.5%; those with outside income of $185,000 or more would receive only 15% of the Social Security pension that they would qualify for without such a means test. Again, correct principle, but too drastic. Pensions should be reduced only for those earning $50,000 or more. The budget-balancing Concord Coalition estimates that this move would save the government $20 billion a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: How We Can Fix Social Security | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...from Ashcroft on the right to NOW on the left, can hardly be called partisan. Nor can it be called self-serving. If it had been in effect years ago, I would have paid Social Security tax on much more of my 1995-97 income. And my proposed means test would bar me from collecting much, if any, future pension benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: How We Can Fix Social Security | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...album that combines blues and dance music? Seem too absurd even to try? Well, tell that to Mississippi blues singer R.L. Burnside, whose new album is a test of just how far the concept of musical fusion can go. According to Burnside, "Adam and Eve were dancing to the blues. Blues is nothing but dance music." Still, there is a risk in making any sort of fusion album. Fusion music often ends up combining the worst elements of two styles rather than the best. But Burnside is too good of a musician to let that happen. As a blues...

Author: By David Kornhaber, | Title: Album Review: Come On In by R.L. Burnside | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...look forward to availing myself of the resources and brainpower of the institution as a whole," Williams said. "I want to challenge and test my intuitions and asumptions about race relationships; I want to expand my ideas outside of the Richmond vacuum...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neiman Foundation Names New Fellows | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

With thoughts of a jobless, impoverished, post-graduation future bearing down, one senior girl (who wishes to remain nameless) decided to test how far the Harvard name could take her. Last month, she put her used underwear up for sale on Ebay.com, a virtual auction Web site. Knowing that Ebay sales require creative marketing ploys, she coaxed potential buyers with "sexy, red-head, Harvard coed's panties being sold to the highest bidder." Offers came in from across the country. Although the senior earned $7 from the sale, she now believes--given the response she received--that she may have...

Author: By J. Y. Hyman, | Title: sell your SKIVVIES | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

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