The American Jobs Act includes an immediate investment in employing construction workers to restore 150 miles of runway at American airports and put in place a next-generation air-traffic control system to reduce travel time and delays.

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Marilyn Moon of Washington's Urban Institute calculates that the average Medicare recipient already spends nearly 19% of his or her income on health care and that in a generation's time, if the system remains unaltered, the proportion will rise to almost 30%.

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For Ford, the spike in rare earth prices a couple of years ago came at a critical time, when it was finalizing development plans for its next generation hybrid system.

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Apart from his obvious gifts, Superman's capacity for continual rebooting has kept him fresh from generation to generation: from leaping tall buildings in 1938 to traversing the solar system and even traveling through time in the 1960s and '70s, to surviving both death and matrimony in more recent decades.

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