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Providing decent living standards for the elderly puts a great burden on younger people. Today's workers are paying for benefits to retirees that far exceed contributions the retirees made during their working years. An individual who goes on Social Security this year has put about $50,124 into the system during his lifetime. If he gets the average 1985 payment of $594 a month, it will take seven years to recoup that. The debate between the generations in America will certainly continue...
...HARD to believe that the next piece could surpass the previous ones, but Ailey's works always exceed expectations. The last dance was "Revelation." his most popular work. The suite "explores motivations and emotions of Afro-American religions music" including gospel songs, spirituals, song-sermons and blues...
There is now widespread agreement in the U.S. that the budget deficit is the most serious problem facing the American economy. This year it will exceed $200 billion, nearly $1,000 for every man, woman and child in the nation. Without tough legislative action, the deficits will continue to increase and will reach nearly $300 billion a year by the end of the decade. If the U.S. is to continue to enjoy a healthy economic recovery and a rising standard of living, these huge deficits must be eliminated...
...Ethiopia's internal affairs." The statement charged Sudan with accepting financial inducements to help the Israelis. Sudan denied the allegations, calling them "part of a malicious plot against Arab solidarity." Neither Sudan nor Ethiopia has diplomatic relations with Israel. The cost of the airlift, code named Operation Moses, could exceed $100 million. It is financed largely by American Jewish organizations and individuals. To Israel, the program has a particularly deep meaning. According to Moshe Gilboa, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official, the resettlement of the Falashas "rejects the cruel and ignorant assumption that Zionism is equated with racism." Yet racism...
...Bligh and the Bounty, which its producer either could not or would not finance in its full power and glory. Since his current producers, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, had almost as much trouble rounding up the money for Passage, Lean's cold contempt for movie magnates might even exceed his ire at critics...