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In May 2001, he announced establishment of a 16-member bipartisan commission "to study and report specific recommendations to preserve Social Security for seniors while building wealth for younger Americans", with the specific directive that it consider only how to incorporate "individually controlled, voluntary personal retirement accounts". [134]
In 1999, the CalPERS board proposed a benefits expansion that would allow public employees to retire at age 55 and collect more than half their highest salary for life. [19] CalPERS predicted the benefits would require no increase in the State's contributions by projecting an average annual return of 8.25% over the next decade. [19]
That year the city also had a record 55 days of daily highs topping 110 °F (43 °C)+, which also made summer of 2023 the hottest on record there, [117] until it was beaten by the summer of 2024 with the hottest ever June at 97.0 °F (36 °C), [118] the third hottest august August [119] at 98.7 °F (37 °C) and the 2nd hottest July record at ...
KBR, Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) is a U.S. based company operating in fields of science, technology and engineering. [2]KBR works in various markets including aerospace, defense, industrial and intelligence. [3]
Varanasi (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋaːˈraːɳəsi], [a] [b] also Benares, Banaras Hindustani pronunciation: [bəˈnaːrəs] [c] [12] [13] [14] or Kashi [d] [15]) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Paul Singer of Elliott Management Corporation, an activist hedge fund with more than US$23 billion in assets under management in 2013, [55] [56] and a portfolio worth $8.1 billion as of the first quarter of 2015 [57] [58] [59] Michael Hintze of CQS with $14.4 billion of assets under management as of June 2015 [60]
The form of government is a democratic federative republic, with a presidential system. [15] The president is both head of state and head of government of the Union and is elected for a four-year term, [15] with the possibility of re-election for a second successive term. The current president is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. [210]
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / ⓘ YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.