Compulsory and flexible retirement in the American economy

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Compulsory and flexible retirement in the American economy
Fred Slavick
Manufacturer: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
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ASIN: B0007DEZ8S

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

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Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Anthony E. Kaye
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807831034
Release Date: 2007-07-18

For anyone with an interest in pensions—workers and employers, personnel directors, accountants, actuaries, lawyers, insurance agents, financial analysts, government officials, and social scientists—this book is required reading. Now, without the aid of a pension specialist, anyone can determine how their particular pension plan stacks up against the average. Using virtually all available government sources (including computerized data unavailable in print) and their own extensive surveys, the authors present a comprehensive description of the structural features and financial conditions of U.S. private, state, city, and municipal pension plans. The introductions to the hundreds of tables explain and highlight the information.

The picture that emerges of the "typical" plan and its significant variations is crucial to all those with a financial stake in pensions. The reader can compare pension vesting, retirement, and benefit provisions by plan type, plan size, industry, union status, and many more characteristics. With this information, workers can evaluate just how generous their employer is; job applicants can compare fringe benefits of prospective employers; personnel directors can judge their competitive edge.

The financial community will find especially interesting the analysis of the unfunded liabilities of private, state, and local pension funds. The investment decisions of private and public pension funds and their return performances are described as well.

Government officials and social scientists will find the analysis of pension coverage, the receipt of pension income by the elderly, cost-of-living adjustments, and disability insurance of special importance in evaluating the proper degree of public intervention in the area of old age income support.

Pensions in the American Economy is comprehensive and easy to use. Every reader, from small-business owners and civil servants to pension fund specialists, will find in it essential information about this increasingly important part of labor compensation and retirement finances.

Nothing about the state court doctrine approving payments for dangerous, local service would allow pensions for indigent mothers and for the elderly, which states began to consider after 1910. Counties and railroads that objected to the new taxes could fight programs based on the old doctrine, established for firefighters, soldiers, and finally civil servants. State litigation provided one of the many grounds for contesting expanded welfare states in the early twentieth-century United States. Sterett demonstrates that state courts maintained a gendered division between the service that marked citizenship and the dependence that marked indigence, even during the promising ferment of the early twentieth century.

Security and dignity in an expanding economy: A federal program to provide the American people with security and dignity when they are too old to work but too young to die

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Security and dignity in an expanding economy: A federal program to provide the American people with security and dignity when they are too old to work but too young to die
Walter Reuther
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World Retail Data and Statistics 1999
Gale Group
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0863388302

On to the Alamo: Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (Penguin Classics)

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On to the Alamo: Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (Penguin Classics)
Richard Penn Smith , and John Seelye
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Dennis Byrd (Today's Heroes Series)
Dennis Byrd , and Michael D'Orso
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Biography Today (Biography Today Sports Series)

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Biography Today (Biography Today Sports Series)

Manufacturer: Omnigraphics
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0780804163

Profiles in the fourth Biography Today: Sports volume include action photos and portraits along with lively and informative biographical sketches. The following individuals are covered in Volume 4: Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player; Brandi Chastain, soccer player; Derek Jeter, baseball player; Karch Kiraly, volleyball player; Alex Lowe, mountaineer; Randy Moss, football player; Se Ri Pak, golfer; Dawn Riley, sailor; Karen Smyers, triathlon athlete; Kurt Warner, football player; and Serena Williams, tennis player.

Biography Today Sports Series: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Sports Series)

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Biography Today Sports Series: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Sports Series)

Manufacturer: Omnigraphics
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Binding: Library Binding

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Biography Today Sports Series: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Sports Series)
Laurie Lanzen Harris
Manufacturer: Omnigraphics
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0780804171

The following scientists and inventors are covered in Volume 5: Steve Case, founder of America Online, Inc.; Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse; Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster; Sarah Flannery, student who created a method of encoding data; Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp.; Laura Groppe, founder of Girl Games, Inc.; Grace Murray Hopper, pioneering computer programmer; Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.; Rand & Robyn Miller, creators of computer games "Myst" & "Riven"; Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Nintendo game "Super Mario"; and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Wiley Not-For-Profit Accounting Field Guide, 2003 (Wiley Not for Profit Accounting Field Guide)

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Wiley Not-For-Profit Accounting Field Guide, 2003 (Wiley Not for Profit Accounting Field Guide)
Richard F. Larkin
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Not-for-Profit Accounting Made Easy

ASIN: 0471264911

Here is a quick reference to the unique accounting and financial reporting issues affecting not-for-profit organizations today. Portable and designed to fit easily into your briefcase or pocket, it is written in the active voice and covers the gamut of fundamental GAAP accounting principles-all in clear and concise language.

The Wiley Not-for-Profit Accounting Field Guide will be updated annually in paperback.

Stylistically, there not a thing to dislike about this collection. The interviews are from The Onion A.V Club (entertainment section) and cross generational lines. Everyone from cultural (and it is weird) icons such as Bob Barker, Henry Rollins, Harlan Ellison (the guy's charisma comes across with every word he spits out), Mr. T., Roger Corman, David Lee Roth, Conan O'Brian and many others.

There isn't a single solitary misfire in this collection and the subjects are so diverse there is something for everyone and every age group.

Two profiles stayed with me for days. One was the interview/profile of 1950s-1960s satirist Tom Lehrer, who dabbled in his art, wrote a limited number of classic pieces (available in a great Rhino collection here on Amazon), then walked away from his satire...and has absolutely no desire to perform ever again. And the other was The Unknown Comic, who performed with a bag over his head (something some known comics might consider doing, given their acts). His anecdote of an elderly and furious Frank Sinatra threatening him for poking fun at him -- then nearly having a stoke as he wouldn't believe it was THE REAL The Chairman of the Board -- is a show business classic. (It was only when he got a phone call out of the blue from Milton Berle that he knew it was for real; and he says he later learned that Sinatra was looking for someone to teach him a painful physical lesson).

It's like having these folks sit in your living room, shed their famous identities, share a bit about themselves, and give you some valuable lessons on the importance of sticking to your goals (long range or quickly improvised ones) -- and to your own PERSONAL ART, whatever it may be. If I could give it 10 stars, I would...Well, I'll stick to it: 10 STARS.

Then there are the bad interviews. No one needs to interview Harlan Ellison, for example. He rants a lot and says nothing. Henry Rollins promotes his ego over his work. And who is Quentin Crisp, anyway?

This would be a five-star book if some of the bad interviews were cut --- preferably replaced with more interesting people. The book can also be faulted for not digging very deep into the lives of these people. Too many interviews read like a fan's meeting with his idol, asking relatively smart questions, but not bothering to ask anything that might upset the subject.

But it's worth a read. You could do worse than find out what's on the mind of Pen & Teller, Alice Cooper, and Ray Bradbury.

Reading this book is like being at a cocktail party full of interesting people. Some of them are interesting for what they have done, some are interesting for what they have learned, some are interesting for how they have evolved and changed, and some are interesting because they're such flaming jerks. And like a cocktail party that you attend with a friend who provides running commentary on the people you meet, "Weird Al" Yankovich provides sidebars to several of the interviews with his impressions of and experiences with the interviewee. Also like a cocktail party, there is a recurring theme of someone whose story to which you keep on returning to hear where it has progressed: the comic geniuses behind the HBO sketch comedy show "Mr Show" provide five separate interviews through the course of their show's tenure on HBO.

My favourite interviews were those with Henry Rollins (whose interview provides the title for the collection), Berkeley Breathed, Joan Jett, David Lee Roth, both halves of Penn and Teller, KRS-One, and Alice Cooper. I could name my least favourite interviews, but these interviews were not least favourite because of the interview itself. Rather, they were not as interesting because the subject turned out to be a flmaing jerk, but not enough of a jerk to be funny.

This is an interesting roadtrip through pop culture. I didn't read it all in one setting, but rather between other things. It's not deep or meaningful (although the book does close out with a collection of interviews with several people who had positive messages), but it is entertaining and often hilarious.

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America

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Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America
Victoria Freeman
Manufacturer: Steerforth Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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