Word: thome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promising elaborate benefits while making insufficient contributions to pension kitties. The General Accounting Office watchdogs reviewed at random 72 state and local government pension plans and found that 53 of them failed to make contributions on the level required by the Federal Government of private corporations. Says Michael Thome, head of the California state teachers retirement system: "Pension costs have been pushed into the future for somebody else to pay. Now, that day has arrived...
...annually, as well as a long list of volunteers for the Government posts. The desert force is headed by Nicholas G.W. (for Gracian Ward) Thorne, 55, a retired Marine officer with sandy regimental mustache who for 14 years has been a globe-trekking State Department troubleshooter. One of Thome's primary concerns is to maintain a painstaking neutrality. Mission members will be required to split their leaves between Cairo and Tel Aviv, each about five hours away by car. Of nine wives who will accompany the party, the five with no children will be sent to Cairo...