These long-established schools have maintained their control of the commanding heights of Britain's social system.
Its unreformed social system and its red tape, both inherited from Soviet days, are crushing burdens.
Japan's social system is based on acceding to group wishes and not displaying too much individuality.
But the actions of prosecutors risk undermining the broader social system, with even more serious consequences.
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The more intelligent Soviet apparatchiks had grasped that the economic and social system of the USSR was crumbling.
He views the financial markets as simply another social system, which determines payoffs and punishments in a like manner.
The single biggest group of books and articles we read, though, had to do with business as a social system.
Greece has an aging population and the need to restructure the social system to contain welfare costs has gone beyond critical.
Polls suggest that most voters see him, and not the opposition leader, Mogens Lykketoft, as the best guarantor of their social system.
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We must not lose our collective faith in capitalism because it has proven to be the only social system that rewards individual ability, initiative and achievement.
As the mother of 4 children, 3 of whom are adopted, I thought about the challenges that my daughters would have faced as they exited the social system.
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has provided a rare up-close and personal look at a social system animated by the desire for political power that disrespects, if not completely disregards, fundamental property rights.
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The medieval and early modern social system was based on ideas of people being born into a certain social class and achieving maximum happiness by accepting the privileges and duties of their station.
Interestingly, you will also be able to hand over control of your game to people remotely via the Share button as well, or send in drops (such as health packs) via the social system.
If Retirement Savings Plus accounts enabled low-income Americans to build up sizeable nest-eggs outside the Social Security system, the notion of cutting Social Security benefits might become less politically explosive.
Some highlights of the Roadmap: Replace Medicare with a voucher-based system, get rid of the corporate income tax and replace it with a consumption tax, offer a simplified income tax system and personal investment accounts as an alternative to the current Social Security system.
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And in doing so, it would consider reforms of both the tax system (code for raising the consumption tax to increase revenues) and the social security system (meaning, cutting benefits and services from unsustainable levels and increasing payments by retirees and other beneficiaries).
The Japanese pension system has been used by politicians (as has the U.S. social security system) to buy votes and contributions of the old age lobby, such that benefits being received are substantially, sometimes vastly (8 or 9 times), greater than the amounts paid in.
The greatest threat to the integrity of the Social Security system was removed by allowing the temporary, 2-percentage-point reduction in the Social Security Payroll tax to lapse.
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