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That means people are paying in more in taxes via withholding than needed and could instead keep a bigger portion of their paychecks throughout the year.
“A significant portion of those missiles can reach their target,” said Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank.
The Goldman Sachs figure is derived from occupational-task lists and asks whether an AI system could perform some portion of employees’ current tasks—summarizing documents, drafting routine text, coding standard functions or analyzing familiar datasets.
When income, career stability and a large portion of net worth are tied to a single company, even a modest downturn can have an outsize impact on financial goals.
From MarketWatch
Has the pregnant portion of your life influenced your perspective on writing jokes?
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
