Word: program
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Second runner-up Christian T. Rudder '98 won $500 for his project "Simple Stocks," a computer program designed to help consultants clarify their clients' stock information...
Self said that she knew of no improper relationship between Monica S. Lewinsky and President Clinton. Defending the hotly debated White House Intern program, Self urged the country not "to make light of our passion for the government or our commitment to serve...
Social Security, the program for the elderly enacted during the Great Depression, is widely regarded as America's most popular and most effective social program, having effectively cut the elderly poverty rate by two-thirds over the past three decades. All other things being equal, if it were not for Social Security, more than half of Americans over 65 would be living below the poverty line today...
...when Clinton says that he will put the $50 billion surplus towards Social Security he is just giving the program some of its money back (he is giving back half of what they borrowed this year alone...
...this imbalance by "tinkering." For example, some combination of benefit cuts, modest tax increases, a change in the investment portfolio of the trust fund and an increase in the retirement age could shore the system up for the next 75 years. Proponents ask why we should radically reform a program that has been so effective for so long. Opponents say that "tinkering" will not be a permanent fix and that there may be a cheaper way to get greater benefits...