Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retirement is a right; that the end of a lifetime of work does not spell sudden destitution. That vision has now become no more than an illusion--yes, retirees still receive social security payments, but the money is hardly enough to live on and in no way stretches to allow the majority of Americans to retire into their accustomed lifestyles...
WHAT makes this more serious is that the lowest paid workers are those saddled with integrated plans. Harvard's 80 per cent social security offset is the highest currently allowable by law. In his tax reform package presented to Congress last January, President Carter asked for a limit on social security integration. Bennett, who worked on the tax proposals, says she personally believes the integration proposal did not go far enough, but adds that Congress nixed integration reform from the package anyway due to pressure from employer organizations. The AFL-CIO has consistently opposed integration. AFL unions around the country...
...then in the fourth quarter came the much-maligned Crimson defense's finest hour of the year. Reeling backward behind the force of three full-field drives, and giving up 105 yards total offense, the defenders nonetheless failed to allow Penn to score--and that's the name of the game...
...several more weeks. By this time, many of the bonds will have matured, and we fear that the University will then say the question is moot and decline to take any stand at all against Manufacturers Hanover's policies. If President Bok really does "abhor apartheid," he will not allow this delay to occur, and we will soon be reading in The Crimson that Harvard has sold these bonds. Otherwise, we will know that his statements on apartheid are merely hollow rhetoric. We hope everyone will be watching. --Southern African Solidarity Committee
Crack, crack, crack! The chutes snap open, blossoming in the sky like popcorn. They are a far cry from the old rounded canopies of World War II. Brightly colored, they are designed to allow the jumpers to maneuver on the way to earth. They float downward for two, maybe 2% minutes. Then they are upon you, the suspended jumpers emitting war whoops because it went well, they have made a good dive, and maybe because they are high on their own adrenaline and they feel so good. "We're all adrenaline junkies," says a jumper...