81.   In fact, the merger protects all the legitimate rights of the officers, including their civil service status, seniority rights and retirement benefits.

82.   In France, a proposal to cut retirement benefits for state employees sparked a month-long transport strike two years ago and helped French Socialists return to power.

83.   In the end, the retirement benefit lost out, while the tuition tax break survived, at least for now.

84.   In return, the workers would agree to accept a smaller guaranteed retirement benefit from Social Security, which would be deprived of the diverted revenue.

85.   In yet another alternative, some nonprofits are using severance pay and vacation pay to replace lost retirement benefits, Roque said.

86.   It also can be the most direct path to the loss of retirement benefits and starvation in old age.

87.   It also wants to require the firm to enforce all existing contracts with foreign offices and to continue to pay retirement benefits.

88.   It also included a retroactive cost-of-living increase and better retirement benefits.

89.   It determines where and when they fly, their pay and even the size of their retirement benefits.

90.   It would deny homosexual couples a number of federal rights and benefits, including married income-tax filing status and federal retirement benefits.