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...considered cutbacks in retirement benefits. Meanwhile, inflation continues to eat away at the value of money people had saved for their old age-and at the amount that can be saved. Says Frances Wegner, 53, who now lives off the proceeds from the sale of her house and a widow's Social Security benefits: "Both my feet are planted on shifting sand. I hold on to every professional contact I can because I must be in a position to get back into the labor force at any time. There is no such thing these days as a worry-free...
...notably Social Security. It began modestly, as a straightforward plan to provide retirement income, when Franklin Roosevelt signed it into law in 1935. Congress began expanding it as early as 1939-a year before the first payments were made-when it decided that benefits should go to the survivor (widow or widower) and dependents of a retired beneficiary. The expansions since then have been legion. Among them: bringing self-employed people, employees of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations into the system; providing for retirement at reduced, though still substantial, benefits at 62 rather than 65; starting...
...main reasons for all the waiting in many courts is the long and sometimes pointless interrogations known as voir dire. Scene: a maple-paneled room in Manhattan Supreme Court. At issue: a small drug sale. "Are you living with anybody?" the defense lawyer asks a middle-aged widow. The woman looks uncomfortable. "We're not gossip columnists," the judge intervenes. "We only want to ask questions that determine if you are a fair and impartial juror. Many people nowadays live together." The woman says she lives alone. The questioning continues...
...widows outlive widowers [Aug. 10]? Because the sad widower must begin doing the shopping, cooking, cleaning and laundry for himself, while the merry widow's work is cut in half...
...orphan cub, is taken in and raised by kindly Widow Tweed, whose farm occupies a patch of rural terrain somewhere in the American midcentury. Down the road a pace is the shack of Amos Slade, a grizzled old hunter who keeps a grizzled old hound dog named Chief and a cheerful hound pup, Copper...