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Most elderly Americans traditionally believe that security in their later years rested on a three-legged stool of Social Security, private pensions and savings. An average retired couple has an income of about $14,700 per year, of which 33% comes from Social Security, 13% from private pensions and 17.5% from savings, stocks or other assets. But now that stool looks shakier than a dairy farmer's milking perch...
With two of the three legs of the retirement stool wobbly, people are looking more closely at their private pension programs. There are about half a million private employer pension plans that cover more than 75% of America's nonfarm workers over age 25. Unlike Social Security, private pension plans are not directly affected by the problem of the aging labor force because companies build up their employees' retirement funds during the employees' working years. Explains Barnet Berin, of William M. Mercer, a New York-based compensation consulting firm: "The private pension system puts in contributions that...
...health center believes that cafeteria workers carried the salmonella bacteria into two dining halls, Fuchs said, adding that 30 workers had positive stool test results...
...death, Tommy Hearns has taken a terrific beating in the sixth and seventh stanzas. The bell rings, bringing an end to Leonard's assault. Tommy Hearns turns and starts towards his corner. But the Motor City Cobra looks more like a newborn gazelle as he wobbles to his stool. Depression...
...woman stared at Nunheim dully and said, "I don't like crooks, and even if I did. I wouldn't like crooks who are stool pigeons, and even if I liked crooks who are stool pigeons. I wouldn't like you." Dashiell Hammett, The Thin...