Word: painlessly
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STOCKING STUFFER If you're looking for a painless way to teach your kids about investing, consider one of the new board games. Stock Market Madness, available in stores and at amazon.com lets players trade stocks until someone emerges a millionaire. Mutual Mania, a cross between Life and Monopoly, starts players with $25,000 to buy mutual funds. It sells at mutualmania.com Both retail...
...price tag means the program may go bankrupt 10 years earlier; to cover the cost, Bush will have to cut benefits. If the market continues its historical rate of return of 7% a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5% a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers...
...means the program may go bankrupt 10 years earlier; to cover the cost, Bush will have to cut benefits. If the market continues its historical rate of return of 7 percent a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5 percent a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers...
Still, it's hard to truly hate cover versions. I feel anything that brings a good song back to attention is a good thing, even if the cover is execrable (hello, Sheryl Crow). Marilyn Manson is going to cover "Suicide is Painless"-the theme song to M*A*S*H-on the soundtrack to the Blair Witch Project sequel. Is it just me, or is the whole Manson thing way too tired? But it's a great song, so bleak ("Suicide is painless/It brings on many changes/And I can take or leave it as I please") that the lyrics...
...high school, Jostrom branched out to classical music as well by joining his school's orchestra. This was not a painless introduction to classical music...