Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal assets are reckoned at over $170,000, Winston Churchill's widow Clementine, like most Britons, is a victim of inflation. When word got out that she was selling family heirlooms and that she was getting no aid from the state beyond a $26-a-week old-age pension, the response was outrage. Declared the Daily Mail: "When Marlborough, Churchill's illustrious ancestor, beat off England's enemies, the nation gave him Blenheim Palace. Is it too much to ask that Parliament, by speedy and special resolution, now grant a modest pension to Sir Winston...
...series of negotiations held over the past year, Coachella turned down UFW proposals for adequate medical and pension plans, transportation to and from the ranch and a grievance procedure...
...week. Workers must now get up at 4 a.m. if they wish to commute; otherwise they must live in the labor camp which is expensive and only accomodates men. Growers have said no to a UFW hiring hall, no to a grievance procedure, and no to UFW medical and pension plans...
...thus directly contributes to the exploitation of the 450 citrus workers on the ranch. Irv Hirshenbaum, director of the New England UFW office, has asked supporters to apply pressure on Connecticut Mutual by demanding to know why the company is stalling negotiations at the workers' expense. "Job security, pension and medical benefits are not unreasonable proposals," Hirshenbaum says...
...agree that a stable population is necessarily desirable. Some worry about the social and cultural implications of a markedly older population. By the year 2020 there will be almost twice as many people over 65 (43 million) as there are today, exerting immense new pressures on the Social Security, pension and Medicare systems. To Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, "ZPG spells a decadent society, a la France in the '30s, a la Berlin in the early '30s. This means a less innovative society, a society in which fewer people will have to attend, care, feed, house...