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...oldtimers can also reduce the "piggyback problem": too few productive workers supporting too many nonproductive people. By staying at work, the older people would provide some relief for the overburdened, near-bankrupt Social Security system. Otherwise, that tax load could become intolerable. At present there are 30 Social Security beneficiaries for every 100 workers; early in the next century it is expected that there will be 52 recipients for every 100 workers. But Social Security officials caution against expecting more than a "minor" impact on the system from having the old work longer...
...required to hoist it to the pillow. And the R.H.E. is consistently light in tone. Its editors and the 800-plus others who worked on the book have assembled more than 3 million words, but they have also inserted nearly 12,000 color illustrations to brighten the load...
...saqueros, melon-sack workers, have the hardest job and are the most militant workers. They move through the fields in a bent-over position, cut and pick melons, and load up a sack on their back. When full, it weighs 70-80 lbs. and they have to run up the planks to the truck and dump the melons. It can happen that, to keep the pace, the truck starts moving while someone is still on a plank, and he falls and injures himself...
Undoubtedly it is clear that Edward Keenan should be a very busy man for some time to come. As if teaching a full load of courses and occasionally jetting off to Teheran were not enough to keep him busy, he has committed himself to attempting to tackle the major long-range issue upon which the viability of graduate education at Harvard hinges...
Young's mission carried a heavy load of political evangelism for the new Administration-and he in turn was greeted like an old friend with warm abrazos. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, who accompanied Young on part of his tour: "Carter could not have picked a more effective emissary for the diplomatic tone-setting job than Young. He functioned as considerably more than a U.N. ambassador, traveling virtually as an alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness...