Word: servants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have yet to see anyone mention two very important points concerning that "overly generous" Government employee annuity. First, each civil servant has a flat 7% deducted from his or her gross salary. Second, after having retired and received an amount equal to that contributed, usually about 18 to 24 months after retirement, the annuitant pays full federal (and in most cases, state) income tax. Howard R. Wesley Blue Ridge Summit...
After reading your harsh appraisal of the federal civil service, I was reminded of M. Beaumarchais's classic insight in The Barber of Seville: "Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy of valets...
Toinette, however, is quite well done by Robin Leidner. As it says in the short biographic squib in the program, she has played the servant in other plays; and she does it again here with a good feel for the humor of the character...
...Blumenthal, 52, one of the most potent powers of global finance, carrying his dirty underwear to a washing. Blumenthal surely could afford a maid, even though he took a $534,000 salary cut-from $600,000 down to $66,000-when he left private industry to become a Government servant. But he prefers to perform his own chores because he is a man without pretensions...
...nervous breakdown in 1905, and her mother died in 1912. Faced with all this, Elizabeth developed a strategy of "not noticing" and emerged into gawky adolescence with big hands, big feet, a stammer and pronounced nearsightedness. She married Alan Cameron, a World War I veteran and civil servant, and settled into a union that was long on affection and short on passion. "I and my friends," she wrote in 1935, "all intended to marry early, partly because this appeared an achievement or way of making one's mark, also from a feeling it would be difficult to settle...