61.   Gore would put this extra money aside to help pay retirement benefits when Social Security is projected to start running deficits in about three decades.

62.   He added that Democrats would assert that the Bush plan could force cuts in retirement benefits and lead to an increase in the retirement age.

63.   He hopes to reap full retirement benefits in six or seven years.

64.   He said the company also suspended retirement benefits, including medical and insurance, of two other executives who have since retired.

65.   He said he needed to collect his retirement benefits.

66.   He withdrew his suit against the company and GE agreed to pay his legal fees and provide him all the retirement benefits to which he was entitled.

67.   He suggested among other things delaying the age of eligibility for retirement benefits and changes in the method of adjusting benefits to account for increases in cost of living.

68.   He suggested among other things delaying the age of eligibility for retirement benefits and improvements in the indexing of the cost of living.

69.   He was asked to resign last August after pressing for cuts in retirement benefits paid to public-sector employees.

70.   He was ousted from government last August after calling for a scaleback in retirement benefits available to employees of the public sector.