Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Moynihan proposal claimed that the budget crisis was, in his words, "easily fixed." What needed fixing, he said, was the Consumer Price Index, or CPI. By simply subtracting a single percentage point from the index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Moynihan declared, the Treasury would save...
As of early yesterday evening, the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) still had not fixed the servers, which went down at 3:30 a.m. yesterday, according to HASCS Director Franklin M. Steen.
Although the bar graph convincingly shows the one admirable part of the flat tax plan--the fact that fixed personal and family deductions of $16,500 for married couples effectively eliminate income tax for those with family incomes of around $30,000 or under--one only need look to the...
Several years ago, Congress finally realized that Social Security would collapse under the weight of retiring baby-boomers unless changes were made. So the government began hording some of the money that comes in, and there is now a trust fund of about $1.3 trillion. In addition, the payroll tax...
"[Not having enough books] is a problem unless you have absolutely fixed enrollment," Oettinger says.