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That women live longer than men is a fact of, well, life. Under many pension plans, women pay for it in bigger paycheck deductions for retirement benefits or smaller payments once they have started collecting. Last week the Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 2, that charging women more than men to participate in a pension plan violates a congressional ban on sex discrimination. In a decision hailed as a victory for the equal rights movement, the court stated that employers may no longer exact a larger contribution from women than from men. By paying the same rate, the court acknowledged...
...U.M.W. leadership spent $40,000 to whip up support for ratification of the second pact. Country Singer Johnny Paycheck, a favorite of the miners, was recruited to support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W...
...counterproposal: Why not temporarily fill the seat with Michael's wife Catherine, a fellow political-science graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago? Catherine took over and, when Michael returned, began sharing the job. Today the Zuckerts are still happily ensconced at Carleton, dividing a $22,000 paycheck and teaching constitutional law (his) and political philosophy (hers...
...heady victory to be elected the first black mayor of New Orleans, but Ernest ("Dutch") Morial's first task was to find a job. He had left his state judgeship to run for city hall, and there was no paycheck in sight until his inauguration in May. "This is no joke," grumbled the politician after the election. "I'm looking through the classified ads." Morial is looking no more. Since his plight got some national press, the mayor-to-be has landed a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics, a once-a-week teaching assignment...
...about far-off Russia or Africa are way down on the list. Despite the ravages of inflation, the median U.S. family's income rose in 1977, and 92 million Americans are now working, up from 86 million in November 1974. The hottest country-and-western hit is Johnny Paycheck's good-natured, blue-collar cry for the freedom to find work that satisfies as well as sustains: Take This Job and Shove...