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...introduced, declaring Congress’s intention to “stand with the American people to reject severe changes to social security, including any and all attempts to privatize [it],” instead promising to “make common-sense adjustments… to strengthen it for future generations.” As well-intentioned as this sounds, it’s nothing more than a way to bait Republicans into publicly picking sides on Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) proposals to cut and privatize social security benefits. A “no?...
...they do. "We have to strengthen quality control," said Shinichi Sasaki, executive vice president for quality. It's a startling admission from a company that made reliability its quest. Toyota will fix its car problem soon. Restoring its reputation is going to take a lot longer...
...against the bill, said he opposed it on moral grounds. "We shouldn't encourage people to partake of alcohol, especially on the Sabbath," he says, noting that passage of the bill would send a conflicting message to the public, since the legislature is currently working to strengthen state drunk driving laws...
Educational systems in the U.S. have adopted a system where students are encouraged to contemplate conflicting opinions to strengthen and reinforce the quality of debates that might arise in the classroom...
...authored the journal article and is now quite open to the idea that the rock art he's studied his whole adult life might have something to say about the stars. "Whether we're right or not, I don't know, but we keep finding things that strengthen the idea," says Johnson. "And if we keep finding ethnographic support for it, I feel we're on safer ground...