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Fresh Load. The basic problem for management is that pension funds are already overloaded with large commitments. Businessmen point out that precedents set by public employers, such as New York City's agreement last spring giving firemen full pay after 40 years of service, are destined to become ammunition for labor during future bargaining. Over the past decade, employer contributions to pension funds have increased by 133.3%, but the funds' obligations have risen by 234.9%. The difference is being made up largely by the growth of fund investments. But some experts expect that if the trend continues, fund...
...Vietnamese, so the majority of the people thought the Americans came here to defend them. But as the war wore on, they realized, no, the Americans came here to help themselves. The people feel perhaps you do not want to end the war." A CIVIL ENGINEER: "Americans came like firemen to extinguish the fire, but they haven't done the job, and now they are going home. It's unbelievable. Fine, we will put out the fire ourselves, but you have taken the water, the pump and the ladder with you. Once we knew...
...both defeated by the voters. The cutbacks came quickly: 1,700 city employees have been laid off, recreation and health programs were reduced, Clevelanders now have to haul their garbage to the sidewalk for collection, and street sweepers are unavailable to clean up after the collectors. No policemen or firemen have been laid off, but none will be hired, and the police academy has, been closed. The hiring freeze is certain to erase the 2.1% decrease in crime in downtown Cleveland, which Stokes' administration had achieved. Last month came the final blow to Clevelanders' pride: the city...
...comedies of Milos Forman, notably Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen's Ball, have commonly been called humanistic, possibly because they refuse to be comfortably confined in any other genre. Their humor is neither primarily verbal nor visual; Forman's particular skill is ingenious observation, creating comedy from character and rigorously familiar situations. But his work also contains a trace of archness, a current of condescension. In none of his films has that tendency been more evident than in his latest, Taking...
Harvard failed to act and, as the three-alarm fire raged, a wall fell on four firemen. Two of the men, including Cremins himself, escaped with non-permanent injuries...