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...building the next generation of clean cars," Obama said in March. Other public buttons have been pressed as well. Senators Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia called on Treasury to go easy on small-town car dealers, who create jobs and pay taxes in far-flung communities. Pension and health-insurance benefits that might have been wiped out in a strictly commercial bankruptcy have instead been elevated to priorities. (See pictures of GM factory-scapes...
...Kurras, now 81, lives in Berlin with his wife, but his retirement is no longer peaceful. The Interior Minister of Berlin, Erhart Koerting, has called for Kurras' police pension to be put under review. And Berlin prosecutors have retrieved the old Kurras files from the archives in order to review the criminal case. However those issues play out for Kurras, the revelations offer further proof that the final version of Germany's shadowy postwar history has yet to be written - indeed, it may never...
...been spent waiting for everyone else to catch up. And they usually do. This season, fans in the U.S. can see productions of his works from the Midwest to Florida, or take their pick from hundreds of versions of what Sondheim and collaborator James Lapine once joked was their "pension" - the (relatively) feel-good Into the Woods. There's also a gutsy Broadway West Side Story, with many of the lyrics rendered in Spanish. (Read "What's Wrong with This Spring's Broadway Plays...
...Executive Committee and the FAS Standing Committee on Benefits, which were dissolved, have not met for years. Former FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles originally founded the FAS Standing Committee in 1995 in response to the University administration’s intended one-percent reduction in its contribution to faculty pension funds, which had not been discussed with faculty members beforehand. The aim of the committee was to provide an avenue for communications about staff and faculty benefits. But after a University-wide committee was founded a year later, the FAS committee grew irrelevant and soon stopped meeting, according to science...
...America has a class of cheap labor now as well, which the country does not want to face. In doing so, the nation has to admit to itself that the millions of manufacturing jobs with high hourly wages, lifetime benefits, and a pension will not be part of the economy in the future. That is true. The U.S. manufacturing base cannot be competitive if it keeps the legacy benefits that unions like the UAW negotiated for their members in the years that Walter Reuther ran the union...