Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Substantial insurance, pension and other benefits became effective immediately. There is no immediate wage boost. But an increase ranging from 7 to 13 cents an hour becomes due on Dec. 1, 1960 and a similar pay raise...
...adjustment to the unseen world is so complete that she belongs to a Brownie troop, takes swimming lessons, rollerskates, and sings in her Baptist church children's choir. She pretty well ignores her handicap and so do her teachers. Says her father: "It gives you a terrific boost when your kid comes home with a report card that you know is an honest report card." So normal does Pamela seem to her classmates that one crew-cut lad pays her the ultimate compliment of an eternal complaint: "Her? Oh, she's just one of those noisy girls...
PENSION-PLAN COSTS will rise sharply in 1960. Prime reason is the 20% rise in Social Security taxes, a boost that will be shared by both employers and employees. Higher costs for increased benefits under private pension programs will be carried mostly by management...