Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many liberals cry that limiting Social Security to those who need it will stigmatize poor recipients. But why should it? The elderly can never be considered "welfare free-loaders." They aren't expected to work for a living...
Elderly widows who have never worked fare even worse. They rely on Supplementary Security Income (SSI), which pays only about $4800 per year in many states...
Federal officials have never been sure how much cocaine is consumed in the U.S., but the conventional estimate has been 100 tons annually. Since agents have captured nearly that much already this year and seizures are generally ^ considered to represent only a small proportion of total supply, cocaine use could be several times that volume. But speculation about a far bigger than expected U.S. cocaine trade is only one of the theories that attempt to explain the recent huge seizures and their failure to increase prices. Some experts contend that the Colombian government's campaign against the drug lords...
TRAVEL: Railroading never tasted so good...
...little too quickly, it seems. According to a report by the Energy Department's inspector general made public last week, the DOE not only failed to locate the missing tritium but never adequately addressed the possibility that the gas was stolen. In a sharply worded statement that raises questions about what exactly the Government has been doing for the past five months, the inspector general said that earlier explanations attributing the losses to procedural errors or mismeasurements were based more on "speculation than fact." More than a year after the first shortfalls occurred, the report charges, "basic questions concerning...