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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But Congress has also granted its members a package of fringe benefits cushy enough to provoke the envy of all but the best compensated private executives. Plenty of the perks go well beyond generous pensions and insurance: cheap haircuts in subsidized House and Senate hair salons; free entry to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are They Worth It? Possible Congressional Raise | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

In Tuscola, Ill., Pearl Kamm, 77, began a road test to renew her driver's license last summer by backing the car over a curb and into a tree. Then she plowed through the plate-glass windows of the driver-testing center, killing a woman who was waiting to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

After a proposed license-renewal law aimed at the elderly foundered on charges of age discrimination, Florida enacted regulations ordering all new residents, regardless of age, to pass both written and driving tests. "There's a great need to gradually restrict licensing," says Jane Lange, director of the medical-review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

These are familiar problems to some residents of California, Arizona and Florida, all states with large colonies of retirees. In Florida 17% of all motorists are 65 and over, and an astonishing 22,268 are 90 or over. In the wealthier districts of metropolises, like Tampa-St. Petersburg and Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Before the advent of age-discrimination laws, 14 states passed legislation requiring older drivers to take tests to get their licenses renewed. In Pennsylvania, where the percentage of fatal accidents involving the elderly increased from 7% to 10% between 1985 and 1987, the Department of Transportation randomly selects as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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