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Other compromise recommendations include a provision to bring all new federal employees into the system starting in 1984; nonprofit organizations, which now may elect not to participate in Social Security, will also be covered. The new contributors are expected to generate $20 billion in revenue. Also starting in 1984, half of Social Security benefits will be treated as taxable income for all individuals whose annual incomes exceed $20,000 or couples above $25,000, a move expected to raise $30 billion. Self-employed people, who now pay into Social Security at a rate of 9.35%, only three-fourths the total...
...enter the camps. And some people reacted very slowly to reports of the ongoing disaster. Most Israelis believe their troops had the implicit duty to assure the safety of all civilians, a duty the high command officially assumed when the Israeli Army entered West Beirut the day after President-elect Bashir Gemayel's assassination...
Even if the lower chamber does not get to the bill before adjourning, another version will be introduced in the next session. Gov.-elect Michael S. Dukakis is considered more favorable towards the legislation than his predecessor...
...Major League baseball owners, meeting to choose a replacement for ousted baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, unanimously elect Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. Steiner had been at best a dark-horse candidate, but the owners explain. "We winked someone who doesn't take any nonsense from labor. Dan's no softie...
Still, many elected officials are wary about pushing such bills through the statehouse. Wisconsin Governor-Elect Anthony Earl opposes the bill that will come before the state legislature this winter, calling it unenforceable. Says Earl: "I think there would be widespread disregard for a change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers...