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...costs in its plants during the late 1970s, the company employed a secret computer program called BELL, a reverse acronym for Let's Limit Employee Benefits. Managers used the program to target and lay off employees just weeks or months before they were vested in the company pension plan. In that way, the company aimed to avoid millions of dollars in pension payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BENEFITS: Too Slick with The Pink Slips | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...years and chaired the state Democratic caucus, said that as a member of Congress she plans to spend a great deal of time increasing political awareness in Black communities throughout the country. She is widely known for starting a child abuse prevention program, initiating the divestment of all state pension funds from companies with ties to South Africa and pushing to reduce toxic waste in the state...

Author: By Jennifer E. Fisher, | Title: Waters Urges Black Activism | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...former Air Force Chief of Staff, fired in September for discussing plans to target-bomb Saddam Hussein, is thriving on the Washington dinner circuit, saying the same things. He also remains on the government payroll until Jan. 1, when his pension will jump $17,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Goodbye of the Week | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...Receive a pension (23% of women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odds & Trends: Nov. 1, 1990 | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...full-time jobs and shares her home with her adult daughter, her daughter's boyfriend and her mother; she also takes in boarders. Another divorced woman, who was married 40 years, moved in with her parents -- now in their late 70s -- while she got her footing. Social Security and pensions are often little help. A woman married for more than 10 years typically collects no more than two-thirds the Social Security that she and her husband would have received. Ex-wives and widows rarely get more than half their spouse's pension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Family: Wives Caution: Hazardous Work | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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