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...secondary school, education is free, and at the university level, heavily subsidized. Federal funds help underwrite both home mortgages and apartment rents. All blue-collar employees and their families are covered by national health insurance. If they are permanently disabled, on or off the job, the government provides a pension for life, and funeral benefits are handsome enough to make the German way of death fairly lavish...
...town of Talara (pop. 35,000) on the Pacific Coast became a model of its kind, with neat houses, abundantly stocked supermarkets, modern schools, a fully equipped hospital. I.P.C. paid some of the highest wages in Peru-about 40% higher than the Lima average-and provided fat fringe and pension benefits for its workers. Employee turnover was almost nonexistent; the average blue-collar worker at Talara has been with the company 20 years. Under government prodding, I.P.C. held gasoline prices in Peru to a cut-rate...
...decision-making process" eventually becomes so urgent that McLandress is called in to implement his theory that the State Department needs only to classify the various types of foreign crisis and feed them to computers to produce the right response instantaneously. The Secretary of State gets a pension and a thank-you note...
...reference to labor-management relations, during its six years of operating in Florida General Telephone Co. has instituted, among other benefits, an improved employee pension plan, greatly in creased life insurance benefits, increased hospitalization benefits, and substantially increased wages...
...retired involuntarily and would be perfectly willing to take any colonel's work the unemployment office could offer. There is precious little demand for regimental commanders in Miami, so the ex-colonel collected the Florida maximum of $33 a week for 26 weeks to add to his comfortable pension...