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We agreed that the amount of money going into the traditional benefit should be exactly 12.4 percent of payroll , no more and no less than the payroll tax today . The balloon at first collapsed , then furiously expanded , then whirled round and round with sickening velocity , and finally , reeling and staggering like a drunken man , hurled me over the rim of the car , and left me dangling , at a terrific height , with my head downward , and my face outward , by a piece of slender cord about three feet in length , which hung accidentally through a crevice near the bottom of the wicker-work , and in which , as I fell , my left foot became most providentially entangled . It should be remembered , however , that when I fell , in the first instance , from the car , if I had fallen with my face turned toward the balloon , instead of turned outwardly from it as it actually was — or if , in the second place , the cord by which I was suspended [ page 14 :] had chanced to hang over the upper edge , instead of through a crevice near the bottom of the car — I say it may readily be conceived that , in either of these supposed cases , I should have been unable to accomplish even as much as I had now accomplished , and the disclosures now made would have been utterly lost to posterity . In the first few degrees of this its progress , its surface is very sensibly flattened , farther on depressed into a plane , and finally , becoming [ page 36 :] not a little concave , it terminates , at the Pole itself , in a circular centre , sharply defined , whose apparent diameter subtended at the balloon an angle of about sixty-five seconds , and whose dusky hue , varying in intensity , was , at all times darker than any other spot upon the visible hemisphere , and occasionally deepened into the most abso-lute blackness . In good time came to my rescue the spirit of despair , and , with frantic cries and struggles , I jerked my way bodily upwards , till , at length , clutching with a vice-like grip the long-desired rim , I writhed my person over it , and fell headlong and shuddering within the car . There are some new models emerging that attempt to keep these children with their extended family network , but to have them in a residential place within the community so that the grandparents can be with their grandchildren , but do not have the full-time responsibility of caring for a large number of grandchildren . The accelerated rate of ascent thus obtained , carried me too rapidly , and without sufficient gradation , into a highly rarefied stratum of the atmosphere , and the result had nearly proved fatal to my expedition and to myself . First , it needs to bite the bullet and accept that there are not enough contracting and program management people to develop sound strategies for major procurements and then manage these contracts after award so they produce results and stay within reasonable cost . How do the different ways women use prescription drugs , as compared with men , figure into this equation ? Had the balloon remained a very short while longer within the cloud — that is to say , had not the inconvenience of getting wet , determined me to discharge the ballast — my destruction might , and probably would , have been the consequence . I now raised up the hoop again within the covering of gum-elastic , and propped it at nearly its former height by means of three light poles prepared for the occasion . Signor 's narrative depends upon a very important fact , of which the reader is kept in ignorance until near the end of the book . If the new Congress wants to show its commitment to fix contracting , it should do something out of character - - amid hearings exposing waste , fraud , and abuse , maybe a lonely one could be held giving career officials occasions to present innovations they have developed to get better value from contracting . In the meantime , looking towards the cat , who was again snugly stowed away upon my coat , I discovered , to my infinite surprise , that she had taken the opportunity of my indisposition to bring into light a litter of three little kittens .