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Thanks to Miss Piggy's decision to pose for The Mona Piga [Dec. 12], our name has become a household word. For years, my mother-in-law collected her paycheck under the name Biga. My husband's name was printed Pica on our wedding invitation, and our charge account was under the name Pizza. Vous can blow Miss Piggy a kiss for us Pigas...
...page. The room containing the printer was an antiseptic prison vibrating with the sounds of the air conditioner and the computer. Periodically the curses of a frustrated zombie rose above the hum because the printer's fragile filament got tangled or the computer swallowed a line or paragraph. The pica mechanism finally refused to work at all, and every page had to be written in tiny elite type. It was a thesis-padder's nightmare. In the terminal room, grad students, government and economics concentrators hunched over the displays, ever-conscious of the vultures peering over their shoulders and none...
Both sides in the New York brouhaha have budged barely a pica from their original position since negotiations began last March, and a federal mediator last week became so discouraged at the lack of progress that he suspended talks indefinitely. Few readers are willing to wager how long the dispute will last, though the City News is offering a $1,000 prize for the guess that proves most accurate. The three struck dailies are losing about $1.6 million a day in advertising and circulation revenues these slow summer weeks. One popular theory is that the papers may soften their demands...
...unpleasant shock: Social Security deductions 35% higher than last year. The surprise will be particularly great for those employees earning more than $9,000 who paid their debt to Social Security early in 1972 and for the past few months had been receiving paychecks free of deductions marked "PICA" (Federal Insurance Contribution...
...wage earners, this year's PICA deductions will be bigger and last longer. Under measures adopted by Congress last year, a worker's Social Security taxes will rise from 5.2% to 5.8% of each paycheck. The money will be taken out of the first $10,800 of his or her pay, v. the first $9,000 last year...