The objective of the arrangement between IBM and the Asean Secretariat is to put in place a long-term program of collaboration in which IBM will serve as the technical adviser on information technology matters.
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On the other, as the public and Congress are encouraged to believe a comprehensive CW accord is imminent, pressure will inevitably grow to dispense with the vitally needed, long-term program for modernizing the U.S. chemical retaliatory stockpile as obsolete munitions are phased out.
They'll also attempt to strip out sections of it, such as a new long-term care program.
For instance, I wrote a story back in December about the potential pitfalls of the long-term care program.
Note: Short-term policies are not eligible for the Long-term care Partnership program, which allows people to preserve additional assets and still receive Medicaid benefits.
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The real danger comes after 10 years, when the long-term care program will increase deficits and create even greater pressure for government rationing of medical care.
In my experience, I find that most patients request surgery, and often do not choose to invest in a long term physical therapy program when faced with the options.
It may be possible to design a modest government-run voluntary long-term care insurance program that is financially viable.
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Thanks to technical budget rules, Congress can now kill the national, voluntary long-term care insurance program without adding to the deficit.
And it opposes the CLASS Act, another part of health care overhaul that sets up a voluntary, long-term care insurance program.
Japan, however, is allowed to hunt between 300-400 minke whales annually in the sanctuary under a clause allowing a long-term scientific research program.
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support.
We started a long-term capital investment program on the infrastructure.
Aging Baby Boomers and their families would all be far better off if congressional critics of CLASS sat down with the White House to design a national long-term care insurance program that does work.
The plan proposed by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to reform Medicare would have put that program on a path toward long-term solvency, without making any changes to the program for anyone over the age of 55.
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), CLASS would establish a federally chartered long-term-care insurance program.
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Past topics have included: planning a gap year, finding the right program, long term benefits, pros and cons, and how taking time off impacts college.
The problem is that the Pentagon periodically generates speculative projections about the long-term costs of the program that provoke anger and punitive responses on Capitol Hill.
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And another key part of our work is to line up the incentives, so that everyone has a stake in the long-term success of the program.
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To fund proper provider reimbursement and ensure the program has long term funding, FICA (Federal Insurance Contribution Amount) that all employed people pay, should be used to its fullest.
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Bernanke opened the quarter with the end of his controversial program of long-term asset purchases, QE2.
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Following tests on a 400-kilowatt model motor, a four-megawatt (MW) generator operating at 3, 600 rpm was subjected to a program of long-term tests.
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Then there is Medifund, a safety-net program for the bottom 10 percent of income earners, and Eldershield, a private insurance program for long-term care for those with old age-related disabilities.
Quantitative easing is a bond-buying program to lower long-term interest rates.
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The Town Hall meetings were designed to collect ideas on efficiencies and cost-savings while improving overall consumer care, streamlining program delivery and stabilizing the program to ensure long-term sustainability.
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Key to the program's long-term success will be the death mandated for the clunker: After its oil is drained and replaced with sodium silicate, the engine is run until it seizes.
While it defends its turf on highway funding, ARTBA also is also pushing a proposal for a "critical commerce corridors" program, a long-term initiative focused on breaking up bottlenecks, widening roads, expanding access routes to airports and seaports and other projects related to freight movement.
Obama, for his part, says the deficit plan he offered last Septe mber is similar to Simpson Bowles in its mix of tax increases and spending hikes, but his plan failed to tackle the Social Security changes needed to make that program sound over the long term and made only modest changes to Medicare.
The U.S. needs an honest-to-God 12-step program to recover its long-term 3.5% annual growth potential.
America needs something like a 12-step recovery program to return its long-term 3.5% growth potential.
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