• But for now, and the next couple of decades, spending the billions required to explore Mars, search for life on Europa and develop cutting age science hardware like the Webb Telescope is exactly where our government (and others) must be focusing.

    FORBES: Curiosity's Successful, Glorious Triumph on Mars

  • Ms Lucas argued that cutting the voting age could boost voter turnout.

    BBC: MPs support giving 16-year-olds the vote

  • This is why Mr Hollande will start by cutting the retirement age for some workers to 60, putting the top marginal income-tax rate up to 75%, raising taxes on wealth, inheritance and dividends, increasing the minimum wage and making it much harder for employers to fire workers.

    ECONOMIST: France��s president

  • The only alternative is to renege on those commitments, by raising the retirement age or cutting back on benefits.

    ECONOMIST: The perils of privatisation | The

  • He has all but ruled out raising the retirement age or cutting pensions to plug the gap in America's public pension system.

    ECONOMIST: The economy: the solutions

  • Just save the time, effort and money by arbitrarily cutting the cord at age 50, and dismiss the older generations as one big, homogeneous blob with no interests past golf and Jazzercise.

    FORBES: Sell Old!

  • Among the proposals: Cutting tax expenditures, raising the retirement age, curbing Social Security benefits and eliminating earmarks.

    FORBES: Fiscal Commission Floats Austerity Plan

  • The public opposes raising Social Security taxes, cutting benefits, or hiking the retirement age to shore up the system.

    CNN: Americans Skeptical About Social Security Crisis

  • After writing his first computer program at age 13, Gates hasn't wavered in his mission to develop cutting-edge software with the potential to change the world.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Experts blame that record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.

    NPR: Ukraine: 4 Dead, 2 Injured In Crash-Landing

  • Can we say that a high-tech process like 3D printing, or laser cutting, or laser sintering, or pick any new tech, is not manufacturing for a new age?

    FORBES: Manufacturing Jobs Changing But No Severe Job Skills Gap In USA

  • It was a goal to suggest that the age of austerity ushered in by West Ham's new ownership, whose cost-cutting measures reportedly include regulating the use of lighting and heating at Upton Park, does not stretch to defensive matters.

    BBC: Daniel Fox

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