The beauty of it is not its sound numbers but its boldness: The entire portion of an employee's contribution to Social Security and Medicare (7.65%) would go into the individual's private retirement and health accounts.
It is not clear, he says, whether sound is processed into sensation mostly in the ear or in the brain.
It may not be time to sound the alarm, but it is certainly time to raise a caution flag.
For artists, it is not a disruptive technology, as sound was in the late 1920s, when an entire generation of movie-stars suddenly found themselves jobless.
This is not only more fair it is also a good deal more fiscally sound in than the American model of entitlements for everyone regardless of means.
Not only is it sound economic policy, in assessing the American experience, there is something about manufacturing that helps define us as a nation and as a people.
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It is designed to sound about right but not actually commit to anything.
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Fortunately, these characteristics of the brain mean that dealing with modern adolescence is not as hopeless as it might sound.
"It does not sound like a quick resolution is in store for Boeing, " the former watchdog said.
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Scribbling insults on a virtual cube may not sound like it but it is one of the very things that makes us human.
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That may not sound like much, but it is enough to drive natural selection towards a prime-numbered life-cycle.
Mr. JOE ANTOS (American Enterprise Institute): Price negotiation by the government for prescription drugs is a great sound bite but it's not a good policy and it basically won't work.
It might not sound appealing, but the stick approach is part of the mix for behavior change.
It may not sound riveting, but reforming Chinese farming is long overdue and a crucial matter of stability.
It is easy to sound professional on many instruments - but not the uke, much less many at once.
"That might not sound like a lot, but it is, " says Mr Bositis, of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
It has altered the sound of the streets: English is not the first language of 22% of Londoners and 42% of London children.
Soon, physicists were cooking up ceramics that superconducted at around 90K. This may not sound all that balmy, but it is above 77K, the boiling point of nitrogen.
But it is rational, sound and in harmony with sport, not as it was in the days of " Chariots of Fire, " but as it is in the twenty first century: Unrelenting, mercilessly competitive and unsparingly achievement-oriented.
That might not sound much of an improvement, but proportionately it is far greater than the one-tenth reduction by Mo Farah.
Streaming technology had to improve: this allows studio servers to send a continuous flow or stream of data through (but not to) a desktop computer, where it is converted into sound.
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This is not going to sound like the greatest compliment ever: It's certainly better than nothing.
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