Word: pensioners
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...cash. The McNamaras own three homes (a furnished house in Washington, an unfurnished house and a furnished cabin in Michigan), but their value is offset by "a large bank loan of approximately equal size." In 18 years, when McNamara is 65, the Ford Motor Co. will pay him a pension of about $16,000 a year; the company also owes him about $50,000 in deferred compensation from his days as an executive. The McNamaras have divested themselves of all holdings in companies that do more than $10,000 a year in business with the Defense Department. But McNamara...
...White House Years, Young Ike resigned his commission to join Manhattan Publishers Doubleday & Company. Inc. as a nonfiction editor of history and biography. "This was not an easy thing to do," said John, who had only two years to go before qualifying for retirement and a $372.50 monthly pension...
...Pension, Ah-ha!" On TV and at rallies, Caouette sticks to the stomach and the pocketbook. "When I'm up there," he says, "and I talk about the people in Montreal who had to dig in garbage pails for chicken last Christmas, I really feel their hunger. I feel their misery. I identify." He vaguely blames the "big interests," meaning the English-speaking people who rule Canada. "Have you ever heard of them lacking money to build a cannon? No. But family allowances, old-age pensions, money for the blind, ah-ha! That's another matter...
...Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver." Only a wantwit or a clodpate can fail to get some notion of Johnson's character in his definition of a dedication as "a servile address to a patron," or a pension as "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Though Johnson is said to be the great Latinizer of English, English never did get Latinized. Today no one calls a cow pasture a "vaccary," and infants are weaned, not "ablactated...
Archie's been living off the fat of the land I'm here to give him his pension plan When you come to the fight, don't block the aisle and don't block the door You will all go home after Round Four...