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...cutting welfare for the poor is a lot less explosive than reducing entitlements for the elderly. News that Clinton may try to tamper with Social Security sent shudders through the Greater Dayton senior citizen center, even though most of the regulars are too poor to be affected by any increase in taxes paid on benefits. "Every President tries to stick his hand into our pockets. But I worked my hands to the bone to earn my Social Security," said Isabel Mejia, 79, pausing from her volunteer work, in which she rolls plastic eating utensils into paper napkins...
...just a frivolous attempt to tamper with nature, the experiment could conceivably be the first step in providing extra daylight to sun-starved northern cities, extending planting and harvest periods and aiding nighttime rescue missions. Those goals will remain distant, however, until the Russians' space program, cash-starved after the end of the cold war, gets a new infusion of money. They'll need more than mirrors to pull off that trick...
...covenant that remains intact in many parts of Western Europe. "With minor exceptions, all the family benefit programs in Europe are respected across the political spectrum," says C. Arden Miller, a professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina. "When governments change, they do not tamper with these programs...
...absolutely did not tamper with the ballots," Prabhu said then. "I would never jeopardize the trust that people have in me as a [council representative] and this new mandate that I've been given as vice chair, over something as insubstantial as a social committee co-chair election...
...would apply to any container or packaging "used to protect, store, handle, transport, display or sell products," but would not include medical devices or products requiring tamper-resistant packages or certain types of food packaging...