The main reason Social Security personal accounts were on the agenda in 2005 is that the Cato Institute has been promoting the idea since at least 1980.
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It is a different ball game to insist on forced association for any reason in workplace or social interactions with people who they, for whatever reason, find offensive.
The agreement with Switzerland would close this channel, another reason why Social Democrats dislike it.
The reason: Social Security checks come at the beginning of the month.
It does not simply refer to technical skills, but rather has to do with understanding, critical reading, the ability to analyse and reason and social participation.
"In closed societies, the sheer value of being able to spread information quickly is going to be the reason why social networks play such a strong role, " Fowler said.
In Greece, for instance, the hard-pressed Socialist government of George Papandreou talks up social cohesion as a reason to avoid unduly large public-sector pay cuts in its urgent fiscal retrenchment.
After all, what earthly reason would the social network have for continuing third-party developer support of the product?
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So the reason to do Social Security is to strengthen Social Security to make sure that those benefits are there for seniors in the out-years.
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So while "social credit" is one reason people give -- you can display the Giving Circle on your blog, too -- another is the hope that it will inspire others to do the same.
Perhaps more important is the key reason to listen: Social media is a conversation.
Hands down, this is a very significant reason to delay receiving Social Security benefits at least to FRA. There is an even greater advantage by delaying to age 70.
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But MTV created this Social Media platform for the same reason it created the possibility of unscripted VMA moments: not to entirely harness the event, but to maximize benefit from the unexpected.
On the one hand, American Jews, who overwhelmingly self-identify as Democrats and disproportionately identify as liberals, oppose Palin for the same reason they oppose all social-conservative Republicans - because she isn't a liberal Democrat.
But while she enjoyed the attention, and sometimes responded with a general kind of social flirtation, I had no reason to see this as a more than natural pleasure in her own looks and talents.
Bing has been slowly increasing its share of American searches and is working with Facebook on integrating social-networking data into its results in a bid to improve them. (This is another reason why Google wants its own source of social data.) People are also being offered more and more digital information via other sources, including specialised search engines and software applications on smartphones.
Although well intentioned, the incubator program provides a classic reason why large firms, social entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs fail they overlook the unknown and act on their assumptions.
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Paradoxically, one reason for the rude health of social conservatism is the spread of political liberalism.
So, drilling down further into the physiology of the brain, Mr. Dunbar's team has now found that a rich social network also goes with the ability to reason about others' intentional states.
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What Obama has just succeeded in doing is to give an incredibly powerful reason to hundreds of thousands of social conservatives, and especially evangelicals, across America to rally behind Mitt Romney if they want to preserve marriage -- and they most decidedly do want to preserve marriage.
And the reason, when we talk about Social Security, even though it is not a driver, it is not the problem when we talk about our deficits, it does have long-term solvency issues that can be -- that can be addressed and we can strengthen the program.
And the reason is because content curation as a social media business strategy has hit the mainstream.
First, video calling may hit the mainstream and become the reason that people choose to use one social networking site over another.
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And the reason she could be independent was because of Social Security and Medicare.
The reason: Work past age 70 incurs full Social Security taxes but usually doesn't add to the worker's Social Security benefits.
This is what the true role of the CIO is all about, and it is the reason that she is critical to building a social business.
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