Word: pension
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Having beaten the bottle and built a lucrative practice, Battle surprised everyone in 1959 by deciding to run for his current judgeship, which pays only $15,000 a year. He frankly admits that he was attracted by a pension equal to 75% of his salary. But Battle has proved to be more than a mere machine politician putting in time on the bench while he waits to retire. He has been a courageous judge. In one highly unpopular decision, he dismissed an indictment against a Memphis theater manager who had been charged with possessing and planning to screen a French...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, Manuel Cohen-who is likely to be replaced as chairman after Inauguration Day-hopes to launch a comprehensive study on the impact of mutual funds, pension funds, foundations and other institutional investors on the securities markets. The study has been authorized by Congress and endorsed in principle by Nixon. But during the campaign, the incoming President criticized Washington for its "heavyhanded" regulation of the securities field. Cohen fears that if he does not move quickly to get the investigation well under way, his Nixon-appointed successor will not press the study too vigorously...
Rather like a seedy pension for men only; comfortable beds, ample food; telephone, cooking and refrigerator privileges. Amiable guards, and a mixed clientele largely made up of men behind in their alimony payments...
From the Alps to Sicily, 12 million workers walked off their jobs in a one-day general strike that paralyzed Italy. With Communist and anti-Communist unions allied in protest for the first time in twenty years, demonstrators poured into the piazzas of Rome and Milan to demand higher pension and social security benefits and to curse the rising cost of living. Outside the Fiat automobile plant in Turin, police broke up a riot with tear...
...Wages and pension costs for employees will rise 9 per cent, to $3.6 million...