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Dorothy Ridgway was nine in 1960 when wire services reported that she was dying of a rare bone disease and that her only wish was for Christmas cards: a kindly world sent 600,000 of them within weeks. This year Parade, the ubiquitous (circ. 22 million) Sunday newspaper supplement, decided to visit Dorothy, now 31 and alive after all. The portrait in the Dec. 19 issue was vivid down to the last teardrop: Freelance Writer Dotson Rader found Dorothy, stunted and virtually housebound, living with her parents in Roanoke, Va., sustained by memories, dreams and a disability check...
Misguided generosity has exacerbated the problem. The original internet of Social Security was to supplement the income of the elderly poor without resorting to something that looked like welfare. To effect this, the myth was propounded that retires had "earned" their Social Security payments by paying into the system--despite the fact that recipients now get vastly more than they contributed. Since the system's inception, the level of payments, and of expectations, has risen drastically. Ten years ago, the average retiree could expect payments of about 601 percent of his pre-retirement income: now, the figure is 90 percent...
...Telegraph, the largest subsidiary in the system, currently pay $1.08 per month, or a total of $12.96 per year, to rent a standard rotary-dial phone. Under one of Pacific Tel's deals, subscribers can choose to pay an additional 660 a month for twelve months as a supplement to their rental fee, which works out to $20.88 for the year, after which they will own their phone sets outright and have to pay no further rental charges...
...addition, Wacker says UHS will begin looking more actively for a full-time female gynecologist to supplement Winig and Federschneider, rather than waiting for one of their jobs to open...
...most part, quarterback Jeff Hammond has only been expected to supplement Cornell's 159.3 yards-per-game running attack. Although he has played nearly every second of every Cornell possession, Hammond has thrown the ball only 72 times for 30 completions, 377 yards...