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Still, that is a mixed blessing for the 37 million people who receive Social Security benefits. While they certainly profit as much as other consumers from low inflation, their federal income supplements, which since 1975 have been indexed so that they rise along with prices, will be boosted only 3.1% for 1986. An average retiree, who now receives $464 a month in benefits, next year will draw $478. That represents the smallest increase in eleven years...
...decision to allow stock trading is part of a plan to reduce the strain on the government's financial resources by raising private capital. But city officials remain cautious. Says Shanghai Spokesman Wang Mingyang: "We will not allow the unproductive speculation and profit making you find in Western stock markets." JAPAN Dangerously Off Course...
...latest ads: "We're not greedy. We believe that it is better to sell hundreds of thousands of software programs at a reasonable price instead of a few at prices that would make Jesse James blush." Even at his prices, Kahn claims, Borland makes a pretax profit of 40%. Says he: "The actual material of a program costs less than $5. Most business programs cost between $300 and $500. This is kind of a rip-off. I'm trying to do things differently...
...Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. threw the book at him: three life sentences plus 40 years, to run concurrently, for passing two classified documents dealing with Navy ships to his brother John for transmission to the Soviets. Clarke also fined Walker $250,000, to guarantee that he will not profit by selling his story of espionage (there have been rumors of such a deal). John, 48, the acknowledged head of the ring, earlier had drawn a single life sentence and no fine. John's son Michael, 23, has been sentenced to 25 years...
...more obvious issues at hand. By virtue of the sheer magnitude of the death and disorder directly caused by HIV/AIDS, I also think that it will eventually force us, whether we want to or not, to rethink the role of religion and religious institutions, the tension between profit and morality in an era defined by global capitalism, and the impact that the epidemic, and particularly the orphan crisis, will have on the international security landscape...