Word: trusts
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...surging health-care costs are taking a toll on Medicare and Social Security. A troubling government report projects that hospital funding for Medicare, which provides health care for 45 million Americans, will run dry by 2017--two years sooner than predicted just a year ago. Social Security's trust fund will go broke in 2037, four years ahead of schedule. Analysts warn that the picture may grow bleaker as mounting unemployment slashes tax revenues that fund the entitlements, which already eat up a third of federal spending...
Most of the criticism, however, seems to indicate an underlying lack of confidence and trust in the government. There are many who remember the first Sandinista government's inventive monetary policies and the resulting mega-inflation of the 1980s. As a result, some people are now treating the new plastic dinero as if it were a hot potato. "Many people don't want these bills because they think they are valueless and they're going to get stuck with them, so they're spending them as fast as they can," says clothing vendor Fabiola Espinoza. It has unintentionally created...
...government's response to charges of journalistic harassment has been to ask for patience. "Journalists need to put everything into perspective," says Webster Shamu, Zimbabwe's Information Minister and a Mugabe appointee. "When [the coalition] started, we first needed to study and learn to trust each other. We have achieved that, and we are now looking at the problems our people are facing. It would be wrong to say the first 100 days were wasted. They were 100 days of serious hard work...
...This verdict can bring citizens to have some trust in the judiciary and it can have a positive outcome for the regime because people don't trust it in general." - Osama Ghazali Harb, an editor and researcher at the Egypt-based Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, on the public's reaction to Moustafa's sentencing (New York Times...
...will most likely involve the restructuring or reshaping of some of our academic programs. Change is difficult, even when the goal is clear, and to successfully overcome the challenge before us, our entire community—the faculty, staff, and students—will need to work together and trust that each has the best in mind for our community...