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...With a lot of commitment and doggedness, Africa will stand on its own feet, and posterity will have this generation to thank for it. Olumuyiwa E. Adepitan Gusau, Nigeria Can poverty in Africa be ended? Of course it can. But first Africa has to be freed from the heavy burden of the past and allowed the liberty and unconditional means to set its own course for the future. Then it can preserve some of its spiritual strength and cultural beauty, much of which has already been lost. Africa's resources have contributed immeasurably to Western wealth, and the continent...
...amount usually suggested for private accounts—would cut funding for Social Security and create an estimated shortfall of some two trillion dollars. Eventually, this shortfall would have to be covered by raising taxes, cutting benefits, and/or taking on new debt. And, much of that burden would fall on younger workers...
...adequate standard of living for seniors. Critics of the current system argue something like this: As the Baby Boomers retire, the ratio of working Americans to retirees will steadily decline, from about 3.3:1 today to about 2:1 in the upcoming decades. This will become an unbearable burden on Social Security. As a consequence, privatizers argue that we need to act now: to take advantage of the market, cut guaranteed benefits, and use higher growth rates to compensate so that retirees will receive roughly the same benefits...
...long ago that Harvard, sitting uneasy with a 7-6-1 record in December, was being counted out of the national title hunt by many of the hockey elite. During that time, an often-frustrated Corriero tried to cope not only with bearing the burden of the team’s scoring, but also captaining a Crimson lineup that had lost as many games in a month that some Harvard squads of yore had lost over the course of two seasons...
...sophomore Caitlin Cahow at the right face-off circle, who then threaded a pass to Corriero at the left post for an easy one-timer. From that point on, Corriero, who was being marked as the collegiate single-season goals record-holder, yielded to Vaillancourt to shoulder the offensive burden...