Word: program
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Foresighted politicians on both sides of the aisle--especially those with an eye toward permanently rescuing the program instead of just postponing its demise--have proposed a meaningful way to salvage retirement benefits. Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) has long urged offering workers as tax incentive to devote part of their salaries to incentive to devote part of their salaries to individual retirement accounts...
...such inefficiency, jubilation over the budget surplus bears reconsidering. The disappearing deficit signals neither an end to overextended government nor a solution to the coming Social Security crisis. President Clinton's suggestion of "reserving" extra revenue does not address the long-term solvency of the federal retirement benefits program...
Eisenberg said the National Institute of Health (NIH) is spearheading this trend with a new program that reacquaints women with the latest discoveries in their scientific fields after their leaves of absence...
...program which they call a re-entry program," she says. "They offer women a one-year fellowship where they learn about the new discoveries in science that have occurred while they were taking a leave-of-absence...
...chemical weapons. "We'd need to destroy not only the weapons but also the scientists that create them, but we don't know where to find them," he says. "That's why inspections are better than attacks." And if bombing prompts Iraq to end to the weapons inspection program, the allies would be left with the unpalatable prospect of fighting the Gulf War all over again...