71.   Italy has significantly reduced the interest rate on its debt and is determined to fix other problems, especially in its pension system, Walter said.

72.   Italy will need strong leadership to undertake an overhaul of its pension system, made necessary by a plummeting birth rate and aging population.

73.   Joachim Faber, chief financial officer of Allianz, said the dilapidated state of the pension systems was part of the motivation.

74.   Just last December, just last December I signed a bill to strengthen our national pension benefit guarantee system.

75.   Labor Minister Norbert Bluem today presented results from his review of the state pension system.

76.   Last week U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan overturned a Clinton line-item veto to eliminate a proposal allowing Treasury and Justice Department employees to switch pension systems.

77.   Last week, the College Retirement Equities Fund -- a component of the TIAA-CREF pension system -- said it would oppose the board.

78.   Labor unions, business leaders and government officials are meeting to create a new pension system.

79.   Like the United States, Britain has a state pension system that will, in the next century, run out of money.

80.   Littell declined to comment on whether he believed that the governor was punishing him for not supporting her bond issue for closing a deficit in the state pension system.