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...hiking at his own pace. I was at least 15 minutes behind Adrian and the same amount of time in front of Johnnie, Mike and the other two. It seemed an interminably long way to the top. I was getting cold, dressed only in shorts, t-shirt, down vest, poncho and wool cap. I hadn't eaten anything that morning and very little the day before, which was beginning to worry me. But worse still, my shoe came untied...
THOUGH Harvard allows hourly workers to "vest" before the federal minimum of 10 years, the University is by no means generous with its pension system. The University's plan is based on credited service and a final average base wage rate taking into account the worker's social security benefits. A worker who retires after 25 years of continuous service will receive 60 per cent of his "high-five pay" (the highest average of the worker's base wage rate during five consecutive years in the final ten years of service) minus 80 per cent of his social security income...
...Hatch's people look around at each other. Yeah, Frank did look good tonight. They wonder if it will work. For the first time all fall their candidate got tough with Ed King, like he too realized the clock was running out. Mastrangelo, dressed in a gray flannel suit vest and pants, with little bulges of fat straining the buttons, says that Frank has been aggressive, and tonight's debate looked particularly good because for once they had all spent some time working on his speeches. As we're talking, Mastrangelo bites down on the wet cigar he holds...
...political novice who is on leave from his job as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Dreyfus, 52, unexpectedly won his party's gubernatorial nomination after a witty and eloquent campaign. His trademark is a bright red vest, and he speaks out at every opportunity against hack politicians and their moneyed backers. "Who's going to run the show," he asks, "people or money...
Only Jason and 18 other patients are so far enjoying the relative freedom and mobility afforded by Dudrick's new vest. But thousands of people across the country who cannot digest or absorb their food are benefiting, though less conveniently from the feeding technique on which the vest is based: intravenous hyperalimentation. By using this technique, which involves pumping nutrients directly into the bloodstream, doctors are able to keep alive patients with shortened guts, inflamed bowels, and immunological defects that prevent proper digestion of food. It is also used for burn victims and people receiving drug or radiation treatment...