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Changes were being offered which would "lessen the impact of the proposed pension changes, particularly on our longest-serving employees nearing retirement", he said.
Earlier this week, Tsipras said he was willing to hold talks with the farmers on possibly amending the pension reform bill to lessen the pain, but they rebuffed his overtures.
The Schwarzenegger approach would also gradually lessen the threat of what Peter Drucker once labeled "pension fund socialism".
The mostly bullish stock market of the past five years has lessened the problem of pension funding, says Mark Ruloff, director of asset allocation at pension consultant Watson Wyatt.
We have cleaners, from a firm that provides them with holiday pay, sick pay, pension payments and so on, to try to lessen my crippling guilt about employing someone to clean up my shit, but a) they are terrible and b) even if they weren't, they could only do so much in a perennially messy house.
Proposals this week by President Bush to bolster pension-plan safeguards, and by major accounting firms to lessen their potential conflicts of interest, are further evidence that almost everyone sees the need for reforms in the wake of America's largest-ever corporate bankruptcy.
And why, one might ask, since President Bush has worked so hard to lessen the progressiveness of our tax system, does he suddenly want to create a "progressive" pension system?
Wage inequality might even lessen".
Derivatives allow them to lessen that risk.
