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...receives a net monthly income of 1,100 ostmarks, or about $655 at the 1-to-1 conversion rate that went into effect July 1. That is roughly a third of what a West German counterpart is paid. "We will be earning even less when rent subsidies disappear and pension contributions rise," she says...
Canada's 123-year-old confederation has been based on a "misunderstanding" all along, says Charles Taylor, a political science professor at Montreal's McGill University. "Quebec already has a de facto special arrangement. We have our own provincial pension plan, immigration arrangements, income tax. But as soon as you say to the rest of Canada, 'Let's make it legal,' all hell breaks loose...
...York Times, Miller pursues her thesis over a lot of familiar terrain -- the Barbie trial, the Waldheim election -- but when she ventures off the beaten track, which she does fairly often, she discovers some very interesting things. Like the fact that the Dutch government still pays a pension of about $11,000 a year to the widow of the country's deputy Nazi leader during the German Occupation, and that she unrepentantly spends part of the money to distribute neo-Nazi propaganda. Or that the monument the Soviets reluctantly built at Babi Yar is actually half a mile away from...
...chairman (and butt of the film Roger & Me) got some respect: a proposal, pending shareholder approval, to nearly double his annual pension to $1.2 million after retirement...
...both are considering challenging Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato. Alabama Democrat Ronnie Flippo plans to use the money this year to finance a race for Governor. There are also whispers that Dan Rostenkowski, the powerful Illinois Democrat, has decided that adding an extra million dollars to his inflation-indexed pension is good reason to retire after one more term...