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...even worse scandal, miners say, is a federal law that makes it nearly impossible for miners with black lung to collect disability payments. Congress drastically tightened up on such compensation in 1981 in response to coal- industry pressure and fraud among miners claiming benefits. In the past, miners with 15 or more years of employment were presumed eligible. That provision is gone, and miners must prove that they are totally disabled. In the two-year period before the change, nearly half of black lung applicants were approved. Now just 4% prevail...
...sees it, spying is preferable to radio communication "100 to 1," because it allows the visiting intelligence to collect information about non-technological species (which SETI does not) and it supplies military advantage, should that be necessary. Like Tippler, he discredits the SETI advocates' notion that cost and difficulty would keep extraterrestrials from visiting Earth, citing the same technological advances...
...aren't from the art school gang, they're off to a new job every year or two. They [the jobs] usually never pay more than 28, 30 [thousand dollars] a year. But they'd much rather do that than sit. I don't think anyone honestly expects to collect a single penny they pay into social security. I think everyone acknowledges that it's going to go bankrupt or kaput. The day you want to go collect your money the system will have just gone bankrupt buying a jewelled stereo system for Jane Fonda's walker...
...institutions had a symbiotic relationship, according to sources inside B.C.C.I. The corrupt organization used Bank of America as an important resource in a global Ponzi scheme to collect deposits, funneling most of its cash in the U.S. into Bank of America accounts. At the same time, the flow of deposits helped prop up the struggling California bank during its hard times in the mid-1980s. "The B.C.C.I. headquarters money always flowed through Bank of America," says a former B.C.C.I. executive...
Academic departments are also beginning to collect recovery fees for publications. The Government Department is charging $4 for junior tutorial packets to help defray the cost of copying. These packets, too, were free last fall...