Postal Service’s Flat Sequencing System won’t need breaks
Updated: 2011-01-31 18:38:10
The U.S. Postal Service’s new mail-sorting machine is about the size of 14 double-decker buses —- and it’s fast. It can do the job of 26 humans working at full-bore. Unlike its fleshy counterparts, it will work nonstop 17-hour shifts and won’t ever get paper cuts or carpal tunnel syndrome. It’s part of a $1.5 [...]

About 175,000 people earning £40,000 a year will see their marginal rate of tax more than double from 30 per cent to 70 per cent from April 6 because of complex changes to the tax system, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
At the same time, a reduction in the point at which higher [...]
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Nobody needs to tell more than 1m Equitable Life policyholders that life ain’t fair. That really would be rubbing salt into the wounds after more than a decade of disappointment, in which they discovered by means of this ‘death of a thousand cuts’ just how badly Britain’s oldest insurance company was run and regulated.
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Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been previewing some issues that pension plan sponsors may encounter during 2011 (e.g., increases in Annual Funding Notice liabilities and PBGC variable rate premium increases). This post highlights several items that plan sponsors should be aware of as they gear up for their 2011 pension funding valuations. These [...]