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  • Full pension too.†   (source)
  • You're in no position to give up a good job and pension for some pie-in-the-sky $397 computer kit.†   (source)
  • It's more like being on vacation in some strange pension.†   (source)
  • Give us medals where they think we were right, take away our pensions and put us in jail where they decide we were wrong.†   (source)
  • Dad says, Och, I did my bit, and the man says, I did me bit, too, and what did it get me but one eye less and a pension that wouldn't feed a canary.†   (source)
  • If not, then your family received a sixfigure settlement plus a monthly pension.†   (source)
  • So take my watch, my wallet, my pension fund.†   (source)
  • The facility was notoriously expensive, but because my dad had a government pension, Social Security, Medicare, and private insurance to boot (I could imagine him signing, on the insurance salesman's dotted line years before without really understanding what he was paying for), I was assured that the only cost would be emotional.†   (source)
  • She was a fifty-four-year-old widow living off a small pension and social security with five kids still left to raise.†   (source)
  • Sol's pension, though small by We,b standards, was more than adequate for their modest needs in K'far Shalom.†   (source)
  • John Eye had lost a foot in the mine, and the company looked the other way when he supplemented his tiny pension dealing out fruit jars filled with the clear, fiery liquid.†   (source)
  • Got a pension and everything.†   (source)
  • By that time, Dad could long since have quit and taken his pension, but he wouldn't have known what to do with himself outside of the service, and so he stayed in until they finally kicked him out in the late eighties.†   (source)
  • And Feamster annually contributes a few thousand dollars to her pension fund.†   (source)
  • Zero pensions, zero savings, zero stocks and bonds.†   (source)
  • He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat bottle-sealing machine.†   (source)
  • You'll lose no time on your pension.†   (source)
  • She was fat and old, burdened with unruly children whose father was not the man she still loved without hope but a soldier living on his pension whom she had married out of spite and who loved her to distraction.†   (source)
  • Pension, I think.†   (source)
  • "I'm on a disability pension," he said.†   (source)
  • He may have had a temper, but he was a reasonably harmless old pensioner.†   (source)
  • Terrified of being fired and losing his pension, the warder agreed to do whatever Mac wanted.†   (source)
  • Tonight she would meet him at their pension by the river.†   (source)
  • These folks would finish their commitment to the armed services and have several years in on a federal pension, so they'd end up working for the BOP.†   (source)
  • The folks at the nursing home in Bradford—a lot of them live off pensions from Gutshot Textiles.†   (source)
  • Filitov drew the pension of a full colonel of tanks and still wore the uniform proudly.†   (source)
  • She accepts no salary and uses her WHO pension to make up the shortfall in the hospital's operating expenses.†   (source)
  • I got a good pension that I earned and a few years left to bask in the sunshine down here.†   (source)
  • There is pension money.†   (source)
  • You will be five women on a small pension doomed to live but half or less of what life could give you.†   (source)
  • The pension where Amanda lived with her little brother turned out to be a moldering old house that fifty years earlier had probably boasted some ostentatious splendor but had lost it as the city gradually expanded to the foothills of the cordillera.†   (source)
  • The Veterans Administration informed her by mail the very next day that she would be entitled to pension benefits for the rest of her natural life because of her husband's demise, and to a burial allowance for him of $250.†   (source)
  • Even if it is some boring old pensions launch, at least it means a trip out of the office and, with any luck, a nice glass of champagne.†   (source)
  • …"leaders" without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil-War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed nothing beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the pseudo-courtly manners of certain southern congressmen and bowed and nodded as they passed like senile old roosters in a barnyard; the younger crowd…†   (source)
  • There would have been great good in that, I believe, if they had not followed every sermon with a request for a portion of their flock's old-age pensions.†   (source)
  • I was riding out the time to my pension, so nobody told me anything and they damn well shouldn't have.†   (source)
  • Papi's disability pension was meager so I don't know how he afforded the gifts he gave us—huge dolls with creamy skin and velvety bows, plastic purses with cartoons on them, colorful barrettes for our hair, which we hid from our mother.†   (source)
  • His seductive voice, which seemed to lick each of his hideous threats to savor the texture and astringency of it, was filled with the quiet confidence and smug superiority of a megalomaniac who carries the badge of a secret authority, receives a comfortable salary with numerous fringe benefits, and knows that in his old age he will be able to rely upon the cushion of a generous civil-service pension.†   (source)
  • There were no more fifty dollars in brown envelopes to count on, so she took to cleaning rather than fret away the tiny seaman's pension her parents lived on.†   (source)
  • There, he'll live off his pension while working for his brother, an orthopedic surgeon.†   (source)
  • And besides (watching Hilden and Trevor and aware of the fascinated dinner table audience), both these men are after my old age pension.†   (source)
  • Then Dennis will give me my full pension.†   (source)
  • If it is already filled I will assist the present honorable occupant in his duties, if required, for nothing, as I will shortly begin to receive a small pension.†   (source)
  • Though Harriet had repeatedly applied for a pension for herself or back pay to reimburse her for those years she had served with the Union forces, her claim was never allowed.†   (source)
  • You through with that pension plan yet?†   (source)
  • The signs all say things like: Ask Us About New Deal for Jobseekers—Part of the Department for Work and Pensions and Thought About Working in Europe?†   (source)
  • You can buy a pension.†   (source)
  • He'd retired with a full pension.†   (source)
  • And the metal-detecting pensioner who unearthed the can and, after a careful inspection, dropped it where he had found it.†   (source)
  • One third of Bubba's customers are Negroes, and another third Yankees who come down here to live on their pensions and stay to die.†   (source)
  • The old ones, with their squashed and sour little faces, sat on their stools and expected only to be tipped, wearing their shorts and very big aprons like a pensioner's uniform (and sometimes, in their great stillness, hiding their arms below their aprons and looking like men at the barber's); the younger, post-independence boys wore their own clothes and chatted behind the counter as though they were customers.†   (source)
  • What we had was a burned White House and ten thousand widows on the public pension list.†   (source)
  • It was bad luck about his pension, decidedly bad luck.†   (source)
  • In the hope of a pension for the children, and to ensure their education and Marina's position at the post office, it had been decided to dispense with a church service and simply have a civil cremation.†   (source)
  • Just prior to his death when he was awarded a special pension by Congress for his service in the Civil War, the press and the country took the opportunity to pay tribute to his fidelity to principle in a trying hour and his courage in saving his government from a devastating reign of terror.†   (source)
  • After almost sixteen years on the job, Kenny did not get any pension from Monfort.†   (source)
  • To add to my family's collective anxiety, my father's pension from Iran was cut off.†   (source)
  • House-elves don't want sick leave and pensions!†   (source)
  • 'tis a good job and I'd be a postman in no time and it has the pension.†   (source)
  • Sixteen years of age an' talking about the pension.†   (source)
  • He was living on a disability pension, and he had no idea what they were talking about.†   (source)
  • Most live on pensions, many obsessed with the past.†   (source)
  • You can taste that pension just like me, and you don't want any waves.†   (source)
  • It's time for you to start thinking about your pension plan.†   (source)
  • He figures he's already put in his twenty and his pension is waiting for him."†   (source)
  • But when the pension went to a grandmother, there was a major impact.†   (source)
  • My pension and my prospects are far less than I deserve.†   (source)
  • He's the Minister of Pensions and National Health.†   (source)
  • He crumpled on the pavement and melted into a stocky gray-haired pensioner in a tattered cardigan.†   (source)
  • Basically, these guys are launching a new pension plan …†   (source)
  • Well, he had his head, his office, his dacha, and his pension in two years.†   (source)
  • He resigned his post rather than retire, a symbolic gesture of defiance that cost him his pension.†   (source)
  • "I'll bet my pension you 'perspired' when Mr. St. Jacques came back from Washington," offered Alex.†   (source)
  • Isn't there a little matter of Sergeant Flannagan's discharge and his army pension?†   (source)
  • Then Pension and Portfolio got in on the act.†   (source)
  • "If you do that, you'll want to be able to pause your pension payments.†   (source)
  • However, this press conference is restricted to the subject of the new Pension Series.†   (source)
  • "My mum used to tell me to take out a pension," says Anne, "and I used to laugh at her.†   (source)
  • They've done mortgages, store cards, pensions, all the usual cobblers …"†   (source)
  • "Pensions," I write, and draw a swirly line underneath.†   (source)
  • They said at first I could hang around in London and wait till I was qualified for a proper pension.†   (source)
  • Bastards wouldn't give me a proper pension.†   (source)
  • Broken service, of course—reduction of pension rights and the usual crabbing.†   (source)
  • Tonight, a high-tech, high-profile arrest of an American would go a long way to silence Fache's critics, helping him secure the job a few more years until he could retire with the lucrative pension.†   (source)
  • It was true, however, that President Rafael Reyes, after only a hurried half hour between appointments in the city, granted her a lifetime pension for distinguished service to the Ministry of Finance, where she had never worked a day of her life.†   (source)
  • In addition she had no money to pay heating bills, and light bills, and phone bills, sending every dime she had from my stepfather's pension and her small work salary and social security to my siblings in college and grad school.†   (source)
  • They were brilliant, but they couldn't get the jobs they wanted, and public teaching was what they did because it was security and it had a pension and you didn't get laid off.†   (source)
  • No pension.†   (source)
  • Swift & Company paid the industry's highest wages, guaranteed longterm job security, worked closely with union officials to address worker grievances, and provided bonuses, pensions, and other benefits.†   (source)
  • Even worse, with the turmoil in Iran, the value of my father's pension dropped to the point of worthlessness.†   (source)
  • "Sick leave and pensions?" he said, pushing his head back onto his shoulders and securing it once more with his ruff.†   (source)
  • From time to time he would be approached by a poor woman who had a problem with one of her children, a war veteran who persisted in demanding payment of his pension, someone who had been robbed and wanted to file a complaint with the government, but no matter how he tried, he could not satisfy them, because the only convincing document he could write was a love letter.†   (source)
  • He tells me how odd it is for him to be treated with such fanfare in his own country and how everyone considers him to be such a big shot, all because of a pension that means almost nothing here.†   (source)
  • The guard says he'll have a pension some day and he'll live on the shores of Lough Neagh and fish his days away.†   (source)
  • Once my father accepted that his monthly pension from thirty-three years of employment with the National Iranian Oil Company would buy him only a few restaurant meals in America, he decided to turn it around and do something good with the money in Iran.†   (source)
  • But he's leaving now, so he is, and a sorry day it is for his poor mother that prayed for a son with a pension to take care of her in her latter days.†   (source)
  • Ah, pension my arse.†   (source)
  • Pension my arse.†   (source)
  • I remember in the newspaper articles the mention of his wife and infant daughter, who was Veronica, and the question of whether they would receive his pension benefit, given the unusual circumstances of his death.†   (source)
  • He declined the lifetime pension offered him after the war and until old age he made his living from the little gold fishes that he manufactured in his workshop in Macondo.†   (source)
  • Mary lingered in the White House for several weeks after the shooting, then returned home to Illinois, where she spent her time answering the many letters of condolence she had received from around the world, and also lobbying Congress for a pension.†   (source)
  • He had his teacher's pension and a small tax-deferred annuity and an old passbook with interest posted in cozy broken type.†   (source)
  • A grateful hospital staff in Paris had discharged him in February 1945 with an 80-percent disability pension and a gold-plated monkey on his back.†   (source)
  • He always said it was the single most important thing an officer could do if he wanted to live long enough to draw a pension.†   (source)
  • You can see how I refuse my pension in order to get rid of the torture of waiting for it until the day I died.†   (source)
  • She thought of Frederic again, perhaps already back in their pension, his tie falling across the back of a chair.†   (source)
  • His daughter ran a child-care center in a small city and had expenses and two children of her own and a lapsed husband trying to start a new career and Albert sent her a little money now and then, out of his teacher's pension.†   (source)
  • But in 1899 she was awarded a pension of twenty dollars a month, not for her own services, but as "the widow of Nelson Davis, who served in Company G, Eighth United States Infantry, from September 1863, to November 1865, and was honorably discharged."†   (source)
  • They were all doing twenty years until their pensions kicked in, although some staffers daydreamed loudly of transferring to other federal agencies, like Forestry.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, a vehicle would pass, or a cyclist, or a pensioner from the village out for a morning constitutional, but for the most part the image appeared to be a still photograph rather than a live video feed.†   (source)
  • Normally that meant a two-week debriefing at the firm's house upstate in Greene County, a modest send-off here in the office (a few bottles of whiskey, some laughs) and then a good pension check every month, but Jack was an old salt if there was one, too observant, too wise-he'd taught Hoagland most everything-and he was too valuable for them to let go completely.†   (source)
  • For example, Mona, a woman with liver spots and a gauze patch over her left eye, answered the question, "What's special about Gut-shot?" by saying, "Well for starters that mill has got a right-good pension plan.†   (source)
  • Jorge is afraid that if the rebels win they'll throw out the Americans and that he'll lose his job before he can get his pension.†   (source)
  • Last point grabbed attention, so Prof expanded it into "longer old age" theme—a chain of retirement hostels where an earthworm could live on Terran old-age pension and go on living, twenty, thirty, forty years longer than on Terra.†   (source)
  • Pensions.†   (source)
  • In South Africa, one study examined the impact on child nutrition when the state pension system was extended to blacks after the collapse of apartheid.†   (source)
  • The pretext was offered, in fact, when the president of the republic refused to award any military pensions to former combatants, Liberal or Conservative, until each case was examined by a special commission and the award approved by the congress.†   (source)
  • She walked across cobblestones to the pension, painted pale yellow and faintly luminous, its window boxes spilling flowers.†   (source)
  • He'd left for Europe a few weeks later, calling her now and then from rustic pensions or tiny hotels by the sea.†   (source)
  • So when Edna retired from the World Health Organization in 1997, she announced to the Somaliland government--which by then had won a civil war and had broken off from Somalia--that she was going to sell her Mercedes and take the proceeds, as well as her savings and pension, to build a hospital.†   (source)
  • In that telegram which was never made public, he denounced the first violation of the Treaty of Neerlandia and threatened to proclaim war to the death if the assignment of pensions was not resolved within two weeks.†   (source)
  • Dimitri may have told you, I'm semi-retired, but my pension requires that I spend five days a month there as a tak govorya-a 'trainer,' as you would say.†   (source)
  • When the pensions went to grandfathers who cared for children, the extra cash had no impact on the children's height or weight.†   (source)
  • Someone in his Praetorian guard gave someone else the location of his Paris headquarters, and you can bet your pension-if you've still got one-that he's climbing the walls trying to figure out who betrayed him-"†   (source)
  • The last time he was seen to take an interest in some matter related to the war was when a group of veterans from both parties sought his support for the approval of lifetime pensions, which had always been promised and were always about to be put into effect.†   (source)
  • With them he waged the sad war of daily humiliation, of entreaties and petitions, of come-back-tomorrow, of any-time-now, of we're-studying-your-case-with-the-proper-attention; the war hopelessly lost against the many yours-most-trulys who should have signed and would never sign the lifetime pensions.†   (source)
  • Can you quickly check the return on the Flagstaff Premium Pension over the last three, five, and ten?†   (source)
  • As soon as I clear all my debts, I'm going to start a pension plan, and also invest in a long-term equity-based investment fund.†   (source)
  • "My name is Maria Freeman, and I'm delighted to welcome you all to the launch of the Sacrum Asset Management Pension Series.†   (source)
  • Although solid investment performance is important, flexibility is equally vital when choosing a pension plan, particularly for the younger investor.†   (source)
  • I break off, reach for a pension brochure, and flip quickly through it, as though scanning for some crucial piece of information.†   (source)
  • Therefore pension planning should be done as early as possible, ideally as soon as you are earning an income.†   (source)
  • But Philip likes her, because she sends him a bottle of champagne every Christmas, so I'll have to give this new pension plan a nice write-up.†   (source)
  • May I ask, do you have a pension?†   (source)
  • I'm just writing down Sacrum Asset Management Pension Fund Launch in capitals at the top of the page, when a middle-aged man I've never seen before plonks himself down next to me.†   (source)
  • When I arrive at work, I switch on my computer, click efficiently to a new document, and start typing my piece on pensions.†   (source)
  • Come on, what do I know about pensions?†   (source)
  • There's a pause—and for an awful moment I think she's going to say no, she wants to stay and hear about personal pensions.†   (source)
  • All the points I made in my pensions article are popping up in my head—and now that there's a real person involved, they all suddenly seem a lot more interesting.†   (source)
  • Pensions, I think quickly.†   (source)
  • By doing my military time, no doubt—But I had my own plan; I played football and finished senior year season with the California Central Valley secondary school record for yards gained and a broken nose—and started in at the local State College the next fall with a job "sweeping the gym" at $10 more a month than that pension, plus fees.†   (source)
  • At first I wondered why these obvious candidates for physical retirement and full-pay pension didn't take it and go home.†   (source)
  • They had wanted an orange grove to supplement his pension and a body of water upon which he could look and in which he could fish.†   (source)
  • Lamar was hard hit by the attitude of his former chieftain, but it is illuminating to note that a few days later, when Senator Hoar sought to deny Davis the Mexican War Pension to which he was by law entitled, it was Lamar who spoke for the Confederate leader in a memorable and dramatic defense: Sir, it required no courage to do that; …. the gentleman, I believe, takes rank among the Christian statesmen.†   (source)
  • One of the things that helps a capsule trooper to live long enough to draw a pension is that the skins peeling off his capsule not only slow him down, they also fill the sky over the target area with so much junk that radar picks up reflections from dozens of targets for each man in the drop, any one of which could be a man, or a bomb, or anything.†   (source)
  • Oh, we all call it retirement, and he gets his pension, but the board eased him out—he lost a quiet little proxy fight—and now he doesn't think he is of any use to anyone at all.†   (source)
  • Most of them, from the first, had been cautious, refusing to accept out-of-town checks, except, of course, payroll and annuity and government pension checks, which everyone assumed were always as good as cash.†   (source)
  • It's all part of the damnable inflationary pattern that's designed to cheat people on pensions and with fixed incomes and so forth.†   (source)
  • With fifteen thousand pounds, a gratuity and a pension from the Circus, a man—as Control would say—can afford to come in from the cold.†   (source)
  • A largish sum was missing (not three figures but four, according to a lady with blue hair who worked in the telephone room) and they'd got it back, nearly all of it, and they'd stuck a lien on his pension.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, the strategy failed and Bourne was pensioned off-gold-watch time.†   (source)
  • Mother and daughter were secure, pensioned by the government, and, like, all high-level defectors, he was subjected to the most rigorous examinations designed to trap potential infiltrators.†   (source)
  • You just said 'a killer they call the Jackal,' and before that you alluded to Bourne as a relatively insignificant rogue agent trained to pose as an assassin, a strategy that failed, so he was pensioned off-'gold-watch time,' I believe you said.†   (source)
  • I've been your pensioner too long already.†   (source)
  • Liberal old-age pensions had been agreed upon.†   (source)
  • But I'd have you remember this - he's a pensioner of the government.'†   (source)
  • Underneath in small type was a sub-heading: "Had planned to retire on pension next month.†   (source)
  • "Now they're going to come around and give Sissy a pension.†   (source)
  • She also received a pension, toward which she had contributed at Suyama, of twenty thousand yen, or about sixty-five dollars, a month; and for several years she had been receiving a war widow's pension of another twenty thousand yen a month.†   (source)
  • However, finally, he had taken a job in the railway, and he didn't regret it, as now he had a small pension.†   (source)
  • I asked endless questions about Grandpa's pension, but information was always denied me on the grounds that I was too young to know what was involved.†   (source)
  • As examples: We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.†   (source)
  • My wandering and inquisitive eye then shows me an awe-stricken child; a shuffling pensioner; or the obeisances of tired shop-girls burdened with heaven knows what strife in their poor thin breasts come to solace themselves in the rush hour.†   (source)
  • And when your twelve years are up you get your pension and become the village bobby, and you can walk about the whole day.†   (source)
  • No, if he had been humble like Padre Jose, he might be living in the capital now with Maria on a pension.†   (source)
  • They taught because it was one of the few jobs open to them; because it was better paying than factory work; because they had a long summer vacation; because they got a pension when they retired.†   (source)
  • He and Chisa both drew health-maintenance allowances as hibakusha, and he had a modest pension from the United Church of Japan.†   (source)
  • He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension.†   (source)
  • Often, when there was no food in the house, I would dream of the Government's sending a letter that would read something like this: Dear Sir: Your claim for a pension has been verified.†   (source)
  • At last he would put the letter away carefully and begin his brooding again, trying to recall out of his past some telling fact that might help him in getting his pension.†   (source)
  • As yet no animal had actually retired on pension, but of late the subject had been discussed more and more.†   (source)
  • She went on,' There'll be no end of it - everybody will be wanting to confess, and the Governor will hear of it, and the pension will be stopped.'†   (source)
  • With my pension and salary and income from real estate in Woodhaven and Richmond Hill, I have over ten thousand dollars a year.†   (source)
  • For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.†   (source)
  • From Granny I learned—over a course of years—that he had been wounded in the Civil War and had never received his disability pension, a fact which he hugged close to his heart with bitterness.†   (source)
  • If a man served me as well as you've served him, well, I'd recommend him for promotion, see he got a good pension … if he was in pain, with cancer, I'd put a bullet through his head.'†   (source)
  • It now appeared that Snowball was not, after all, hiding on Pinchfield Farm, and in fact had never been there in his life: he was living — in considerable luxury, so it was said — at Foxwood, and had in reality been a pensioner of Pilkington for years past.†   (source)
  • It was my conviction, supported by no evidence save my own emotional fear of whites, that Grandpa had been cheated out of his pension because of his opposition to white supremacy.†   (source)
  • She thought she had a position to keep up: a Government pensioner: the wife of the only married priest.†   (source)
  • And now as we ate breakfast—we ate in silence; there was never any talk at our table; Granny said that talking while eating was sinful, that God might make the food choke you—we thought of Grandpa's pension.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Grandpa did not discover that he had been discharged in the name of Richard Vinson until years later; and when he applied to the War Department for a pension, no trace could be found of his ever having served in the Union Army under the name of Richard Wilson.†   (source)
  • And I would read him the letter—reading slowly and pronouncing each word with extreme care—telling him that his claims for a pension had not been substantiated and that his application had been rejected.†   (source)
  • And he does nothing but stay in pensions and write poetry.'†   (source)
  • It was her right, the pension on which her own emotions had retired.†   (source)
  • The harness maker was an old soldier, and after a few months his wife received a widow's pension.†   (source)
  • As he used to tell me: "I am as high as I can get; my pension is safe.†   (source)
  • The company, Ezra explained to Carol, had no funds for giving pensions.†   (source)
  • The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension.†   (source)
  • The Pension Bertolini had decided, almost enthusiastically, that they would do.†   (source)
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