Word: adjustments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of people without fancy titles or Harvard degrees have a hand each year in some part of Harvard's Commencement preparations. And in addition to the full-time and temporary workers contributing to the University's greatest ceremony. Cambridge store owners, policeman and long-time residents adjust their lives a bit each year at the beginning of June...
...spite of an atmosphere of insistent confidence and cheer after the British landing, it is hard to get a sense of the true feelings involved. Removed from modernity for most of their lives, the Falklanders have suddenly been invaded by it, and while they have shown an ability to adjust to their revisions, it is impossible to tell how much trepidation remains. As for the British troops, they are merely passing through town on the way to what threatens to be the bloodiest theater of an already too bloody conflict. When they depart, the people and animals of Port...
...attempt to raise the eligibility age, Social Security experts agree, is to phase in any change slowly, giving workers who are now in late or mid-career time to adjust their retirement plans. The central feature of Reagan's disastrous proposals last May was a reduction for those who retire at 62 from 80% of full benefits to 55%-starting Jan. 1, 1982. The Senators who voted 96 to 0 to oppose his plan protested vehemently that it would be an unconscionable blow to people...
...uncertainties. As Boskin puts it, if pessimistic demographic predictions corne true and "we wait until early next century to do something about this, the Social Security deficit could be well over a trillion dollars." Given the moral imperative of providing people who are now working with ample time to adjust their retirement plans to changes in Social Security, the Administration and Congresss should combine action to ease the immediate cash squeeze and budget deficit with long-range reforms, legislated now to take effect gradually over the decades. Otherwise, the prosperous '90s might be no more than an interlude between...
Millions of American youths have traditionally learned how to adjust to the discipline of the working life for the first time with a summer job. Usually semiskilled and poor paying, or at the lowest professional levels, such jobs also help pay for the high cost of education. The recession, though, has made this year's the job picture murky. Opportunities are scarce in many parts of the country, but jobs are still going begging in some places...