Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person who refuses to condone the violence is Jerome Winegar, principal of South Boston High School, who launched a sharp attack on Boston's leadership the day after the most recent stoning incident...
This is a city where high school principal must go and act like a politician in order to get the politicians to act like leaders, to help shape the city's character, to protect all of its citizens. Fortunately, Jerome Winegar is one person who has not been so stupefied by violence and hatred that he has forgotten how and when to cry out. But South Boston High is Winegar's only domain, and South Boston is merely a very small piece of a very large tragedy...
...build this place," he said recently, pointing to the boat storage area. This part of the boathouse contains Harvard's 40 boats, which hang from an aerial track system that snakes along the ceiling. The boats can be moved along the tracks and out over the water by one person. A power lift then can lower them into the water...
...those receiving the pink slips will lose their jobs Westling said, because notices were sent whenever there was doubt about renewing a person's contract. He declined to estimate how many would be retained...
This bleak demographic problem has been compounded by rising prices and the trend toward earlier retirement. Inflation erodes the real worth of the $280 billion that companies and unions have built up in private pension funds and increases the payout needed to keep the elderly out of poverty. A person who began contributing to a pension fund when he was earning a respectable $2,000 per year in 1939 may now be receiving $6,000 a year from that fund and finding it mighty hard to make do. Earlier retirement, mean while, is shortening the period during which people contribute...