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...oversee the program, is that the money paid out in benefits will begin to exceed the amount collected in taxes. And since Social Security will run a surplus until then (and has been running one for some time), it has billions available that it can tap to fill the gap. Even under conservative estimates, the system as it stands will have enough money to pay all its promised benefits until 2042 and most of its obligations for decades after...
...years--provided emergency communication after the Indian Ocean tsunami. They have supplied similar public service in many other situations, including the Florida hurricanes. Our systems include thousands of repeaters that receive and transmit throughout the U.S., connections with the Internet and more. Ham radio bridges the gap between countries and peoples; there are more than 750,000 operators in the U.S. and many thousands more overseas...
...importance of preparation before Day One, for instance, Neff and Citrin cite Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, who, realizing she knew relatively little about finance, enlisted the director of financial analysis to give her a crash course in "Balance Sheet 101." To underscore the value of communication, they reveal that Gap CEO Paul Pressler kept a weblog as he visited stores around the country, assessing the retailers' culture and practices and trying his hand at tasks crucial to their operations. ("Stock replenishment," Pressler noted in an entry, "was one of my favorite jobs.") Leavened by anecdote and enriched by the authors...
...Krafts of the world won't necessarily be able to translate their household names into success in the natural arena. It's no coincidence that you will almost never find the well-known parent company listed anywhere on the packages of their New Age offerings. "There is a credibility gap with these [brand name] companies as they try to represent themselves as healthy brands," says Steve Demos, founder of White Wave and creator of Silk. In fact, Simon argues that Hain can benefit from other companies' marketing campaigns. "We have great products, but our industry needs to do a better...
...think the evidence in favor of an ‘innate abilities’ explanation of the gender gap is very weak,” said Jessica L. Jones ’06, a biological anthropology concentrator in Mather House. “The evidence in favor a ‘social forces’ explanation is very strong...