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...simple way to reduce the future growth of Social Security benefits would be to modify the annual cost of living adjustment, restricting the automatic increase to the excess of inflation over 3%. Such a 3% threshold on the COLA would mean that benefits would rise by 1% if the inflation rate were 4%, by 2% if the rate were 5% and so forth. This would slow the growth of total benefits without denying anyone a Social Security benefit and without reducing the size of any retiree's monthly check...
Joffe's and Davidson's defects drag The Killing Fields under the threshold of cinematic glory. But its tough, unsparing depiction of two witnesses to one the 20th centuries greatest tragedies excuses the occasional cinematic botch-ups. The Killing Fields has the courage of its convictions, an encouraging case of substance winning over style...
...recent series of startling discoveries led in last by Professor of Cellular and Developmental Biology Raymond L. Erikson is bringing scientists to the threshold of understanding and possibly controlling one of today's most feared and least understood diseases--cancer...
...When does human life begin? At the moment of conception, say many conservatives, both religious and secular. The Rev. Donald McCarthy, of the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center in St. Louis, argued sweepingly before the congressional hearings that there is "no evidence of a threshold, a starting point other than fertilization itself, for the beginning of human nature." This is a standard argument against abortion, but McCarthy used it to endow every new embryo with a panoply of civil rights. These included a right not to be frozen, a right not to be experimented...
Mondale told Kennedy he would agree to a panel to review campaign rules; he promised to support substantial reductions in the number of superdelegates and lowering the threshold for winning delegates from 20% to 15%. Kennedy put in a second call to Hart and handed the receiver to Mondale. The two rivals went over the terms of their accord one more time and agreed on the session in New York...