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Advocates also argue that legalizing gay unions is a way of getting the spousal benefits--health insurance, pension plans, inheritance rights--that long-term domestic partners deserve. Moreover, Sullivan maintains that marriage will encourage care giving to partners, something especially vital in the age of AIDS...
...first change reestablishes the level of Harvard's annual pension contributions for faculty members under 40 years of age at 5 percent of salary, up from the current 4 percent. In 1994, the University reduced its contribution to all faculty pension plans by one percent...
...second change provides cost-of-living adjustments to faculty and staff retirees covered under the 1950 Pension Plan...
Blanchard also feared the loss of a pension that a court-martial might mean. He offered to resign if the Coast Guard would halt its probe, but on March 10, he was turned down. Three days later, Blanchard met with Vice Admiral Arthur Henn, the Coast Guard's No. 2 officer, to ask for time off. "His face was drawn and a little pale," Henn said. "He was mortified that he had caused such potential embarrassment to the Coast Guard and his family...
...Otake, 77, can hardly believe what is happening to Japan. He served in the imperial army during World War II and returned to start a newspaper-distribution business in Soma, about four hours north of Tokyo. He retired in 1980, and lives in a comfortable house on a small pension in Iwaki, a pleasant seaside town that used to bustle with small electronics factories. Otake and his wife Mitsuko used to make an extra $900 a month by working a few hours a day at home assembling small parts for CD changers...