Early in January 1984, beneficiaries under the OldAge, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program received a 3.5-percent cost-of-living increase. This increase, effective for December 1983, was originally scheduled to take effect in June but was postponed by the 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act. . Automatic cost-of-living increases were instituted in 1975 by legislation enact...

where AN, BEN and TRF are binary relations, and TRA is the composition of AN, TRF and GEN, i.e. interpretation was to be expressed as an orbered tree with complex property l i s t s on the nodes, which was manipulated by two basic operations, v iz. tree transformations and lexical subst i tu t ion. The BETA preoccupation with robustness, on the other hand, made them require that all linguistic ...

While definitely not a new technology, mass spectrometry (MS) has seen incredible growth over the past 25 years. Mass spectrometry has rapidly evolved to the forefront of analytical techniques; its ability to analyze proteins is the major driving force in the field of proteomics. MS instrumentation has increased approximately 5-fold in sensitivity every three years. The level of performance tha...

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Repeated censuses of a population of yellow baboons (Pupio ~ynocephalri~s) in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, revealed a decrease from over 2,500 animals in 1963-1964 to 123 individuals in 1979, or from a density of about 73 to 1.8 baboons per kmz over a 15-year period. Median group size decreased from 43 in 1964 to 27 in 1979. The largest and smallest goups declined the most; groups near the me...