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...that looked like welfare. To effect this, the myth was propounded that retires had "earned" their Social Security payments by paying into the system--despite the fact that recipients now get vastly more than they contributed. Since the system's inception, the level of payments, and of expectations, has risen drastically. Ten years ago, the average retiree could expect payments of about 601 percent of his pre-retirement income: now, the figure is 90 percent. Yet the amount each recipient gets remains independent of need, so that for some Social Security provides bare subsistence, while for others...
...aircraft engines, spare parts and services to the U.S. military, said they had reviewed the $140 million in total increases and found that $101 million "has been justified." The remaining $39 million, they said, would be "negotiated" with the Government. The company claimed that its spare-parts prices had risen about 20% in each of the past two years, "representative of the aerospace industry." But Hancock disputes this, arguing that the price of Pratt & Whitney spares went well beyond "an average price increase." The Air Force has expanded the inquiry to parts supplied by Pratt & Whitney for the F100 engine...
From the Politburo in Moscow down to the 414,000 primary party organizations in factories, schools and collective farms across the Soviet Union, power has always meant the ability to block or grant appointments. For 18 years, Brezhnev proved to be a master of the patronage system, having risen to the top on the coattails of the man he later deposed. How well Andropov can play Tammany Hall politics, Soviet-style, is likely to determine how long he rules...
...their earnings have sagged, corporations have been forced to let more and more workers go. The Department of Labor announced last week that the unemployment rate had risen in October from 10.1% to 10.4%, its highest level since 1940. In the auto industry alone, some 250,000 employees, or 21% of the unionized work force, have been laid off indefinitely...
Gaetano Altobelli (Philip Bosco) is an Italian-American ex-Mafioso "collector." Through assiduous upward social mobility, he has risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest...