Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thread that runs through Beyond the Ivory Tower is a distinction between collective and individual action. Essentially, educated individuals in the university community have the right and should be encouraged to speak out on moral issues. They should write articles, collect petitions, organize debates, and engage in the intellectual discourse that provides the life-blood of any university...
More fundamentally, the aged have been misled for two generations into believing that Social Security payments constitute no more than a return to them of the payroll taxes that they have paid during their working years. This is dramatically untrue. The average retired person today can expect to collect lifetime benefits five times as great as the total taxes that he or she once paid, plus interest...
...inevitable. It could be changed by a renewed surge in birth rates, for example, or a continued rise in immigration by Hispanics and Asians, most of whom are young and who will work and pay Social Security taxes for many years before they collect benefits...
Slow the Growth of Benefits. Despite much demagoguery, no one is talking about snipping so much as a penny off present benefits; anyone now receiving an average pension check of $379 a month can count on continuing to collect at least that much, unless the trust funds do indeed run dry. But it seems imperative to keep future inflation from pushing up benefits as rapidly as it did from 1975 to 1981. Besides saving money for the trust funds and helping to trim the overall budget deficit in the short run, a limit on future increases could also help build...
...airplane carrying relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims crashed on the last day of 1972, one of those killed was Pittsburgh Pirates' star rightfielder Roberto Clemente. That season, the baseball world honored Clemente--who had ended the previous season with a double off the Mets' Jon Matlack to collect his 3000th career hit--by renaming an award in his honor, having his former teammates wear his old number 21 on their sleeves, and inducting him into the Hall of Fame in an unprecedented special election...