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...archive provides a snapshot of the financial burden that comes with final club membership...
Since 9/11, the Coast Guard has been given a heavy new burden of antiterrorism responsibilities--like protecting refineries, shipyards and bridges at the nation's 361 ports. When it was moved from the Department of Transportation to DHS in 2003, Coast Guard boosters like Senator Susan Collins of Maine made sure it retained all its functions. But, as with FEMA, there is always a risk that the new terrorism focus will detract from its traditional lifesaving role...
...ratified by the union membership, the retrenchment will hasten the end to company-subsidized health care for all retirees. From 1988 to 2004, the share of employers with 200 or more workers offering retiree health insurance plunged, from 66% to 36%. The end result: a fresh and additional burden on retirees. Concluded a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Hewitt Associates: "For the majority of workers who retire before they turn age 65 and are eligible for Medicare, the coverage provided under employer plans is often difficult, if not impossible to find anywhere else." For retirees over 65, "employer...
...because it allows them to avoid the problem of interrupting a strict plan of study to engage in an international experience. However, the financial cost of going abroad during the summer, both in terms of actual cost incurred and in terms of income not earned, is often a serious burden, so the College could do more to make financial aid for summer travel more available and accessible...
...State as an undergraduate with a “well-directed mind.”“I could not afford to be an English major or to dabble,” he says. “I focused on academics, in particular on engineering, to lessen the burden on my family.”COMMITMENT TO SERVICEEven after completing his studies, Evans’ parents’ educational message continued to drive him.When working in Huntsville, Ala. on the 1969 moon landing, Evans says he saw young African-American adults being “swallowed up?...