Word: touche
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Robert A. Baker, professor emeritus ofpsychology at the University of Kentucky, said, "Idon't think anyone is trying to shut him up buttrying to see if he has not lost touch withreality...
Social Security enjoys a consensus: no one wants to touch it. With his Ph.D. in economics, Phil Gramm used to declare candidly that fiscal sanity demanded reforming Social Security, even if that meant trimming the benefits of the seniors currently receiving them. Now Gramm is leading the battle to phase out the earnings threshold that limits the benefits of well-off recipients. Wilson, like most of the others, is punting altogether. At a March 30 breakfast thrown for him by Henry Kissinger in New York City, Wilson deflected a question about Social Security: until the public is better educated about...
Stoll isn't dismissing computers altogether. He acknowledges that the Internet has served him well over the years, allowing him to keep in touch with friends and colleagues, bringing news from around the world. "But at what a price!" he writes. "Simply keeping track of this electronic neighborhood takes a couple of hours every night ... Bit by bit, my days dribble away, trickling out my modem...
This alternative "school," made up of about 100 teens, was eventually accredited by the city school board. Franklin says she was able to learn high school math in a few months in this alternative learning environment and still keeps in touch with her "classmates" from those years...
...SHAC provides another opportunity for students to express their opinion of the health care they are receiving. "We have two boxes in UHS...so if you have any questions or complaints, fill out a form, and someone from our group will check the box that evening and get in touch with you, hopefully that night" said Magge, who is also a Crimson editor...