Word: far
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality, all current retirees get far more back in benefits than they paid in. The average Social Security recipient gets back his or her entire contribution, plus the employer's matching contribution, plus interest in less than four years...
...someone with no other income, Social Security benefits are shamefully low. The maximum retirement benefit is only $6492 per year. And wealthy retirees are far more likely to receive this amount...
...spend so much on rich senior citizens that we neglect far more pressing needs in society. Children, for instance, are six times as likely to be poor than the elderly. We should be giving poor children a fighting chance instead of subsidizing the Carribean cruises of greedy geezers...
...decision "not to crowd" is an economic reality. The American dream of living better than our parents, or living as well as our parents, simply requires more effort today than it did. The dual-career family, which only became the norm with our parents' generation, is a reality far removed from the free-loving ideal Professor Blumenthal's youth experimented with in the '60s. And on the other hand, as a result of the gains by the Women's Rights Movement in the last two decades, the domestic tyranny of the '50s is behind us. Freud...
...high time to make people feel uncomfortable. This is an issue on which Harvard's far-flung activist communities can unite: the minority communities, the feminist community and activists from other liberal and progressive groups should come together to forge a coalition around this issue. And then they should figure out the best way to make the inertia-laden people up top feel uncomfortable...