Word: sheltering
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...comfortable backgrounds, I don’t mean we all grew up in mega-mansions with pimped-out Mercedes in our driveways. I simply mean that the overwhelming majority of us didn’t really have to grow up worrying about the basics—food, water, shelter, etc. If we did, we probably wouldn’t have made it to Harvard. Most of us tend to take the comfortable routes to the diploma while we are here as well. Sure, a lot of us work hard, but there is a certain security in all of it because...
...rates were much higher for upper-income individuals--the top rate was 70%. (Today it's half that.) It wasn't until several years later that companies began to make 401(k)s available to most employees. Even then, the idea was to encourage saving and provide a tax shelter, not to substitute the plans for pensions. By 1985, assets in 401(k)s had risen to $91 billion, as more companies adopted plans. Still, the amount was only about one-tenth that in guaranteed pensions...
...affluent. The transition is well under way, eroding efforts of the past three decades to eliminate poverty among the aging. From taxes to health care to pensions, Congress has enacted legislation that adds to the cost of retirement and eats away at dollars once earmarked for food and shelter. That reversal of fortunes is staggering, and even those already retired or near retirement will be squeezed by changing economic rules...
...ease that load by turning soldiers into walking power plants. Iowa Thin Film Technologies began supplying the Army last year with pocket-size solar rechargers (weight 6 oz.) and tents embedded with flexible, plastic panels that can generate electricity. Soldiers field-testing the tents use them both for shelter and to operate medical or communications equipment. Another solar company, Konarka of Lowell, Mass., has also received a military grant and hopes to do away with solar panels altogether. The firm is developing light-sensitive fabrics that the Army can manufacture directly into power-generating, camouflaged tents, uniforms or backpacks...
...When Indian Kashmiris do venture across the LoC, one of their first stops will be Kamsa refugee camp, just north of Muzaffarabad on the banks of the Neelum river. The camp was hastily built 15 years ago to shelter Kashmiris fleeing a fresh outbreak of violence on the Indian side when jihadist separatist fighters launched an offensive against Indian troops. The militancy persists, with over 50,000 dead-indeed, the killing of a top government official on the Indian side within days of the quake suggests there has been no letup in attacks as a result of the disaster, while...