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...poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...
...poverty rung of the economic ladder, but they've been pushed up by rising Social Security benefits. President Nixon deserves much of the credit for this. Before he came along, Social Security payments were raised only when Congress decided--usually around election time--to give retired voters a bonus. Since Nixon put in the automatic cost-of-living increase, the surest way to improve your lot in life...
...That's like an extra bonus," Gately said...
...last year's world-beating season, the Harvard train jumped the tracks at Colgate, a 7-6 loss paving the way to a 2-3-1 stretch of results in which the Crimson played its worst hockey of the year; perhaps just the opposite could be triggered by a bonus result at Starr Rink this time around...
Republicans won eight seats and got a bonus ninth when Richard Shelby, Democrat of Alabama, switched parties, bringing the new G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Among the big-name Democrats felled by voters were Tennessee's Jim Sasser and Pennsylvania's Harris Wofford. A number of struggling Democrats survived: Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Virginia's Charles Robb (who beat out controversial Iran-contra figure Oliver North) and, apparently, California's Dianne Feinstein. Kansas' Bob Dole, a possible presidential contender, will become the new Senate majority leader. Colleagues in line to head key committees include Strom...