Word: senior
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Trish J. Pugliese, senior epidemiologist with the state Commission for Communicable Diseases, said about 70 percent of the 120 cases of measles in Massachusetts since January have occurred in secondary schools and college campuses...
...Barry M. Goldwater campaigned against Social Security in 1964 and lost in a 44-state landslide, America's largest government income maintenance program has also been its most politically secure. The image of poverty-stricken, elderly pensioners--not to mention the political wrath of well-organized and politically active senior citizens--has stifled criticism from even the most conservative politicians...
Liberals also insist that keeping the rich on the entitlement rolls is a political necessity. It is true that many wealthy senior citizens would not support the program if they did not benefit from it. But by bribing the rich for their support, liberals are hurting the very group they want to help--the elderly poor...
...spend so much on rich senior citizens that we neglect far more pressing needs in society. Children, for instance, are six times as likely to be poor than the elderly. We should be giving poor children a fighting chance instead of subsidizing the Carribean cruises of greedy geezers...
Honorarium: Senior cornerback Jim Smith was named ECAC 1-AA Co-Defensive Player of the Week for his stellar Penn performance. Smith made nine tackles against the Quakers, including the fourth-quarter stuff of keys at the one on fourth down...