Word: automaticism
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Race walker BERNARDO SEGURA was elated after crossing the finish line in an Olympic-record-beating 20-km walk. What he didn't realize is that 400 m from victory, he committed his third "loss of continual contact with the ground"--an automatic out. Officials failed to reach him before...
The delay freed Texas from having to spend billions of dollars in matching state grants, leaving enough money for Bush to pass $1 billion in tax relief in the 1997 legislative session. Two years later, he set his sights on even bigger tax cuts. To make the numbers work, Medicaid...
How far can Adams' novels be stretched? Babel Fish--a device he describes that can be inserted into the ear to give the listener instant translation of all languages--doesn't exist. But h2g2 has licensed the Babel Fish name to a service run by search engine Alta Vista, which...
Most people should be heavily weighted toward stocks and saving the max. Yet Hewitt found that more than half of those automatically enrolled stuck with the woefully conservative default investment option and savings rate. If you've been drafted, chances are you're contributing at a level that doesn't...
There are other ways to encourage saving. How about tying a bonus to being in the 401(k) plan? Some companies have tried sending out dummy 401(k) statements to show how much money is at stake. Yet many still don't do the simple things, like allowing new hires...