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If a faculty member repeatedly underachieves, he or she "might be offered a reduction to part-time status," the report reads.
One of the most contentious issues is the United States' response to global warming. As a senator and later as Vice President, Gore played an important role in formulating an international response to the threat of global climate change. Bush, however, argues against the Kyoto protocol. Like his father in...
--To give $2 of projected surplus to debt reduction for every $1 for tax cuts or investments
--THE TRILLION-DOLLAR HOLE By allowing workers to divert part of their payroll taxes to private accounts (Bush hasn't said how much this would be; the fraction his advisers throw around is one-sixth), Bush cuts the size of the Social Security surplus almost in half, reducing it about...
One precedent for how Gore might reassess in a downturn can be found in the early days of Clinton's first term. In the 1992 campaign, Clinton and Gore promised $200 billion of "investment" spending to stimulate the economy, retrain workers and promote high technology; they ignored the growing deficit...