2023年4月15日 星期六

entitlements/ benifits programs, apolitical, bipartisan, friends with benefits




From WSJ Opinion: Biden’s proposed American Families Plan would make history, but not in a good way. For the first time, more than half of working age households would be on entitlement programs, write John Cogan and Daniel Heil.



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Opinion | Biden’s Plan for an Entitlement Society
For the first time in history, more than half of all Americans would be o

ermany’s success in battling the coronavirus has drawn international attention. The main lessons: Fight the virus locally and keep politics out of it.




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Local, Practical, Apolitical: Inside Germany’s Successful Coronavirus Strategy
Germany’s success in battling the pa






Vladimir Putin and the Chinese president Xi Jinping have met more than a dozen times since 2013. Yet the relationship between their two countries remains strangely hollow.
(Picture by AFP)
As the two nations forge closer ties, will they be able to overcome their frequently fraught history? Kathrin Hille investigates
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Urban Dictionary: friends with benefits

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Two friends who have a sexual realtionship without being emotionally involved. Typically two good friends who have casual sex without a monogomous ...


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It risks succumbing to the sense of entitlement that comes with being a national champion. Just look at Intel
Samsung is too cosy at the top of the memory-chip market
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Samsung is too cosy at the top of the memory-chip market
Samsung should be wary of Intel-like complacency


A Bipartisan Move to Tackle Benefits Programs
By JACKIE CALMES and ROBERT PEAR
Republicans and Democrats are no longer fighting over whether to tackle the popular entitlement programs - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - but how to do it.
He also urged the audience to get more active, saying he has gone from apolitical to maxing his political contributions. One of his big concerns: "Entitlements will bankrupt us at this rate ... markets eventually will rebel." Like many others, he thinks this means inflation or deflation. "We're either going to go Argentina or Germany."

entitlement[en・ti・tle・ment]
  • 発音記号[intáitlmənt]
[名]
1 資格, 権利.
2 ((米))エンタイトルメント:(一定の要件を満たす者に対する)政府の給付, 社会保護, Medicare, Medicaid, フードスタンプ, 農業補助金など.
The most important examples of entitlement programs at the federal level in the United States would include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, most Veterans' Administration programs, federal employee and military retirement plans, ...


a·po·lit·i·cal (ā'pə-lĭt'ĭ-kəl) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Having no interest in or association with politics.
  2. Having no political relevance or importance: claimed that the President's upcoming trip was purely apolitical.
apolitically a'po·lit'i·cal·ly adv.

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