Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than men for life insurance because of greater longevity, but until recently most companies gave them credit for living only three years longer, about half the real difference of life expectancy at birth. With annuities, on the other hand, women get reduced monthly payments. The total amount women collect is actually higher on average because they earn interest for a longer period of time. "The unfairness and injustice of this are profound," says NOW President Judy Goldsmith. "The woman doesn't pay any less for food at age 65, or for rent or for anything else...
...year to their families back home. With easily forged documents, some illegals get all the perks of citizenship, including welfare, unemployment benefits, food stamps and Medicaid. Many illegals are paid in cash by their employers. Others, however, pay payroll and Social Security taxes but do not risk trying to collect any services in return. "That's part of the deal," says Brandeis University American Studies Professor Lawrence Fuchs. "The illegal immigrants don't have any dissatisfaction with it. It's a benign Catch...
Urging seniors to contribute to Harvard and make a statement for divestiture, recruiters for the fund--two in each House--managed to collect over $7000 from 360 of the 1500 seniors in just a few weeks. The regular Class Gift, meanwhile, netted $23,000 from 900 students. Although the total given to the two funds combined matched last year's contributions to the regular Class Gift, the percentage of donors fell by 20 percent...
Endowment planners said yesterday they expect to collect substantially more money for Commencement, when the younger fifth, 10th, 15th, and 20th reunion classes arrive. Organizers said those alumni are especially likely to give in large numbers when they arrive, adding that the endowment has many organizers in those classes...
...avid collector since the age of seven--she grew up in Florida surrounded by insects--Bowers still goes out into the fields of Western Massachusetts once or twice a week to collect checkerspots. "These guys are a real pain in the neck," she says, pointing affectionately to the orange and black striped furry caterpillars stacked in plates in her lab. Checkerspots take a full year to mature from the larval stage to the butterfly stage, and Bowers must collect specimens every week or so in order to follow the insects throughout their life cycle...