Word: program
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Speaking of blatant disregard, randomization was a unilateral decision on the part of the University to implement a non-choice housing program that the majority of students had clearly and consistently opposed. Such paternalistic action on the part of the Administration, displaying clear disinterest in student voice on the issues that most intimately and regularly affect our lives, is a mockery of our intelligence and maturity...
...result, what followed was something rare in Washington: a surprise. With the rallying cry "Save Social Security first," the President said in his State of the Union address last January that he was ready to take on the largest, most popular and most politically treacherous social program ever devised. His statement was easily written off as a blocking tactic aimed at stopping Republicans from plowing the budget surplus (now projected to be as high as $75 billion this year alone) into tax cuts. But last week, in the first of four promised forums on Social Security, Clinton proved...
...Social Security will involve adjusting the current system, changing the nature of the program--or, most likely, a little of both. Those who want to keep the existing system on life support can buy time the same way they have before: by raising taxes and reducing benefits. But even the most obvious measures will not be so easy to put in place. Many Americans already pay more in Social Security taxes than they do in income taxes. Further raising the retirement age (now slated to go to 67) as a way of acknowledging that people are living longer would seem...
...climb will not be deaf to these arguments. They still cling to their traditional concept of Social Security as a safety net, not an alternative to Merrill Lynch. More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll said they regard Social Security primarily as a benefit program designed to assure the elderly a minimum income during retirement. And that does not take into account that a third of Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees but widows and widowers, children who have lost a parent, and the disabled...
...reasons for the failure of the Texas 10% Plan are murkier. Some of its supporters argue that the universities did not do a good enough job of publicizing the program. But the university at Austin sent personal letters to each of the 17,000 students across the state who were in the top 10% of their class. Another theory is that states like Oklahoma, where campus affirmative action is still permitted, lured away talented minority students with scholarships. Some educators speculate that the real problem may be that in many impoverished schools even the top graduates are unable to afford...