Word: pensioneer
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...from a debilitating illness that makes speech and movement difficult. He speaks and acts through surrogates, and his insistence in staying on for one more term has led many experts to believe if elected that he will serve only till February, when he will be eligible to collect maximum pension...
...control of the union from Frank Fitzsimmons, his hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared that he would centralize power again and deal out a few racketeers who had rubbed him the wrong...
...literally a day for the books. In addition to the Puzo package, Koster was chasing rights to publish works by Franz Kafka. She was outbid by Pocket Books, who paid $210,000. The Prague pension clerk would have been fascinated by the rituals of a modern paperback auction. He had envisioned the adrenal new world in his novel Amerika. But could he have imagined that he would be in six figures...
...like Ollie Hardy and sounds like John Wayne, is typical. Will takes his 27 ft., rebuilt Travco and 21 medals from four wars from town to town, ole buddy to ole buddy, all year round, stopping only in the town he calls Lost Wages, Nev., to collect his ample pension checks. A reluctant hero, he has found the good life...
...Morris Shenker, who put up $10 million to buy the President Motor Inn on the Boardwalk. Formerly one of Jimmy Hoffa's lawyers, he is part owner of the Dunes Hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Because of Shenker's links with a scandal-ridden Teamsters Union pension fund, he has been investigated off and on for more than 20 years by the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department and the Nevada gaming commission. Mob activity in Atlantic City has so far been concentrated on loan sharking and the control of service businesses...