Word: piggybacks
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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...
...women's college near White Plains, N.Y. -sold its 55-acre campus out from under some 300 students. But rather than die outright or be absorbed by burgeoning Pace University, which had bought the facility for its nearby Westchester campus, homeless Briarcliff proposed a desperate sort of scholastic piggyback. It hoped to share its remaining faculty and students with yet another small, private and financially strapped women's college: Bennett, a two-year junior college with 230 students. Under the tentative plan, Briarcliff would attract many of its undergraduates to Bennett's underpopulated Millbrook, N.Y., campus; Bennett...
...College's graduate program in management, reported on the importance of mentors to women in corporate life. Gould wrote about the marital disharmony that comes from projecting conflicts with parents onto the spouse. Yet Sheehy insists that most of the book is original, including her portraits of "the piggyback principle" (wife living her life's dreams vicariously through her husband's career), "the sexual diamond" (men and women are most alike before age 18 and after age 60 but dangerously different in the middle years), and "Switch-40s" (men acquire feminine characteristics, and women adopt masculine ones...
...double take an institution on city streets. One, emblazoned with realistic-looking and oddly placed eyes, will put any woman one-up on male bosom watchers: her chest will stare back at them. Another has a pair of shapely legs draped over the shoulders, as if someone were riding piggyback. A third, though neck high, seems to be a scuba suit unzipped to the navel, partially revealing breasts dyed on in authentic flesh tones. Later in the year. Body Language will include other frontal lewdity, including a shirt that looks like a grotesque potbelly...
Dead Stick. Launching the shuttle should be relatively easy. Fastened piggyback style to two 149-ft. boosters and a 154-ft. tank of liquid propellant, the ship will lift off from Cape Canaveral. After separation, the solid fuel boosters will be parachuted back into the ocean, to be picked up and reused. The liquid-propellant tank, jettisoned after sending the shuttle into orbit, will not be reused...