With this approach, because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than the implicit returns paid by completely noninvested, pay-as-you-go Social Security, all workers who exercise the personal accounts would receive more in benefits through the personal accounts earning standard long term returns than the Social Security benefits they replace.
"Bespoke has slowly started seeping into our consciousness as a term for our gold standard, as a male equivalent of couture, " he says.
An added advantage is that long-term CD rates generally exceed standard savings account interest rates.
This is workable because standard, long term, market investment returns are so much higher than what completely non-invested, purely redistributive Social Security promises.
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Studies show that at standard, long term, market investment returns, for an average income, two earner couple, over a career the accounts would accumulate to close to a million dollars or more.
For decades, US government bonds were the gold standard for long-term, risk free fixed income investors.
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The drivers licenses would look like a noncitizen license and would likely be valid for less than the standard six-year term.
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Dr. Bronner's lawsuit was conceived five years ago when the word "organic" began appearing on widely marketed products, which never had to meet a standard to use that term.
"The payments are staggered over the term, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
Over decades, these industries became part of a complex and self-sustaining bureaucracy supporting expensive, long-term contracts for uncontestable, non-standard offerings.
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Based on the proven IEEE 802.11 standard specification for long-term stability, WiGig offers the same level of security and manageability as today's best WLAN technologies.
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To maximize efficiency, carriers aim to eliminate the dedicated voice channels needed by older technology and clear the airwaves for the latest standard, called long-term evolution, or LTE.
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Charles Clarke was quizzed about the shameless adoption of the term "independent" - the standard description, indeed the official description, for the private sector in the UK as opposed to schools that are state-run or "maintained".
Some of the confusion may reflect the fact that carriers have muddied the issue of "fourth-generation" technologies, a term once reserved for LTE and a competing standard called WiMax.
Analysts say Huawei is now one of the leading vendors globally of equipment for Long Term Evolution, or LTE, a wireless standard that allows higher traffic speeds than older networks.
Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard thinks Republicans should continue with short-term spending bills.
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Studies showed that the sub-standard silicone used posed no serious long-term threats to health, but the PIP products were up to twice as likely to burst as other implants.
For multinational companies reporting under GAAP and IFRS, there may be longer-term cost savings and improved investor relations from moving to one standard globally.
Nathan Parnaby, chief executive of Asia and Emerging Markets for Standard Life, said the company's long-term vision in the Middle East was to build a leading retail savings and investments business.
Although 4G has become part of our daily vocabulary, there is no 5G standard that exists today. 5G is simply a generic term for the next generation network.
Unless we come up with long-term solutions to grow the American economy, create more jobs and maintain our standard of living, we run the risk of a societal meltdown.
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Rating company Standard and Poor's raised the country's long-term sovereign credit rating from "stable" to "positive" last week, citing optimism about the government's ability to carry out structural changes.
To be sure, the embargo "may cause upward pressure on oil prices in Europe in the short term as Iran's oil is diverted, but lower prices elsewhere, " Standard Chartered said, as China would likely take advantage by negotiating discounts.
The same is true of the assumption that the mortgage repayment will rise (it could be a longer-term fixed rate for example), or by how much - we have used the Standard Variable Rate (SVR), but the borrower may be using a mortgage which charges a different interest margin.
So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.
Bonuses, longer-term incentives, free housing and meals, a mobile phone and a set of wheels are becoming standard perks.
Some will no doubt benefit in the near term, but the removal of limited capital from the productive parts of the economy will ultimately reduce our standard of living, drive up unemployment and make individuals more--as opposed to less--needful of charity.
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