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...rising health-care costs, workforce skills, immigration, retirement savings and the like. Occasionally, prominent voices are heard. Treasury secretary Ken Henry has argued that meeting the fiscal needs of an aging population requires sustained productivty growth and increased workforce participation - basically, a high-growth road to close a forecast gap between revenue and spending in 2040. Reserve Bank chief Ian Macfarlane has warned that unless governments improve the quality of higher education and maintain a flexible economy, future generations could be burdened with higher taxes to meet the health and welfare costs of retiring baby boomers...
...match, Harvard matched the Horned Frogs point-for-point in the third frame. Neither side could claim more than a two-point advantage until a bad pass by TCU gave the Crimson a 22-19 lead. Harvard took seven of the next 11 points to push the gap...
...sandy-haired, gap-toothed 6-year-old daughter got a pair of cleated black shoes and shin guards so that she could attend soccer camp this month, which she wants to do because her pal Charlie Hooley is going, and that is how the twig is bent around here. The dad has little to say about it. Fate is everything. Thanks to a dog that jumped on her when she was 3, she is terrified of dogs, and thus are we spared the curse of dog ownership...
What's the best way to handle a large gap in one's resume? Should the time at home be listed? QUIGLEY: Yes! You can't avoid it. The big way to avoid a gap in a resume is to do something while you're out that you can put in that space: carefully selected volunteer work, going back to school or what some people disparagingly call "a little part-time...
...city. At each corner we asked locals for a way to the medina that would keep us at maximum distance from U.S. forces. We quickly found a place where civilians were crossing the American lines. Small groups of women, old men and children were walking through a 300-foot gap between a Bradley tank and a Humvee lined up on Medina street. Anyone crossing would have to pass through the line of fire of both vehicles. Thorne pulled out a white cloth and we raised our hands and then stepped out into the empty street. Our translator Yasser, Talib, myself...