pension
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In 2020, McClatchy went to court to restructure its finances, arguing it couldn’t meet its debt payments and pension obligations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Don’t miss: I’m a single 58-year-old veteran in California with $1.5 million and a VA pension.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The new framework aims to resemble the menu of options offered to public-employee pension plans, university endowments and other deep-pocketed institutions that hire firms like BlackRock to manage their money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Seeking to insulate herself from voter anger at Berlin, she has publicly challenged the national government on its plans to tighten pension rules and over soaring fuel prices.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Our last interaction, at the pension bureau, had ended so awkwardly—I’d told him I didn’t want to talk about Luc and then hurried off, inventing an errand before he could follow me.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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It pays out pensions in hard cash, it takes payment for utility bills.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Hedge funds have been on the opposite path as pensions, increasing their Treasury bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The savings, pensions and retirement income specialist posted a strong set of results, with operating profit ahead of consensus, supported by strong growth in assets under administration, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Sir Steve Webb, partner at pensions consultancy LCP and a former pensions minister, said he was shocked at how few people the government expected to actually receive the payment.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
And some of them are old and crumbling, back all the way to the Civil War, pensions for the last remaining widows on the Union side.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Due to a deteriorating psychiatric condition, Ms Murray was pensioned off from the civil service in August 2019.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
The airline struggled with a 51-day pilots' strike between September and November 2017, grounding half its fleet and resulting in dozens of pilots being fired, while others resigned or were pensioned off.
From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2021
A horse is pensioned when it is no longer available for breeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
“Maybe it’s time for the whole thing to be pensioned off and rethought.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
“Not that it need come to that,” Mr. Owen blurted, meaning Tansy might marry and be saved before she was pensioned off.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
The period-of-presumption idea was done away with entirely, the Government pensioning War veterans frankly on their civil disability.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mr. Smithson made a calculation, and would have saved some hundreds a year by pensioning off these old servants.
From My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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