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...calculating them on the basis of their separate earnings records. That change would produce larger benefits for many retired couples who had both been wage earners. Another suggestion calls for extending the same rights enjoyed by dependents of male workers to those of women employees, who at present face stiffer eligibility requirements...
Darcy Pulliam pleasantly surprised this reviewer in her role as Lady Windermere. Though her first act work was somewhat stiffer and more wooden than hoped for from this Loeb veteran, she redeemed her rather shaky start thenceforth...
Pressure for fuller campaign-finance disclosures has been building for years, prompted by ever fresh scandals and the ever-rising cost of the campaigns themselves. Now the rush of Watergate has broken a veritable log jam of pending state legislation, and new, stiffer legislation has been knocked hastily together...
SALT. Beecher reported in the Times on July 23, 1971 a U.S. negotiating position that had not yet been presented to the Soviets during the first phase of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, then under way in Helsinki. When the U.S. later tried to take a stiffer approach, the Soviets, believing that the Beecher article outlined the real fallback position, resisted. The incident brought CIA polygraph experts to the State Department to search for the source of the leak (it is not known whether he was found). The leak was a legitimate cause for worry, though there is no evidence...
After Judge John J. Sirica sentenced Liddy to up to 20 years and the others to even stiffer terms, but with the promise that he would review the penalties if they spoke up, Liddy remained mum and received an additional sentence for contempt of court. McCord took the suggestion to heart, and he wrote Sirica, charging that higher authorities had been involved in a coverup. With that, the whole attempt at concealment began to collapse...