Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNIVERSITY'S recent approval of a minimum pension plan is a fair--but overdue--settlement of an issue that has too long clouded labor relations at Harvard...
Before the minimum pension measure, the University paid some full-time employees who had labored for Harvard for 25 years as little as $96 in pension payments a month, in addition to their social security payments. The pension and general benefits review issue prompted the protracted labor negotiations between the University and its dining hall workers. The new plan will provide dining hall employees, custodians and property maintenance workers with 95 to 100 per cent of their pre-retirement take home...
...shabby house in the Sicilian countryside near Messina. One day five years ago, when Giuseppe was 28, he met a young neighbor named Mariannina at a festival. Mariannina was very unhappy. Her husband was old and blind, and her family was forced to live on the husband's pension of $160 a month. "No problem," said Giuseppe generously. "Move in with us." So Mariannina, her husband and their three children settled...
...anger upon learning that she had been traded for a secondhand truck. She blew the whistle, and soon the police were asking questions. They wanted to know if the women were being used as prostitutes; they denied it. The police asked just how Mariannina's husband's pension check was used. The answer was unclear. So now the authorities have charged Giuseppe with pandering and selling his harem's offspring, and they have taken him away. His wife misses him. So do Nos. 1 through 8 (except Fortunata), two of whom are pregnant. Says one: "He loved...
Well-placed Yugoslavs were putting out two variations on the wedding-march theme. According to one version, Tito has "definitely" divorced Jovanka after 26 years of marriage. In disgrace for the past two years, she has been given a modest flat in Belgrade and a pension befitting a major in the Yugoslav army, the rank she held in Tito's World War II partisan forces. Meanwhile, Tito was smitten with Minutic, a Junoesque blond with a faint resemblance to Actress Anita Ekberg, after seeing her perform last summer. A "serious relationship exists," say the sources, but no marriage...