The penalty they will pay is permanent, as retirees who take benefits at age 62 — as Ms. Zimmerman did, to help make her mortgage payments — will receive as much as 30 percent less in each month's check for the rest of their lives than they would if they had waited until full retirement age (66 for those born after 1942).
The organization's numbers indicate that cities across the state may receive as much as $153.7 million less in the next biennium than the roughly $439.6 million that they are currently appropriated.
"Whether deliberate or not the message is being received as being less about public protection and more about sending a chilling Big Brotheresque warning about the consequences of participation in public demonstrations".
And now -- after he has been unemployable for more than four years, while enduring a legal process that threatened to send him to prison for decades -- perhaps it takes a bit of numbness for anyone to think of the sentence he just received as anything less than an outrage.
Roberts said Ishpeming's second request received "less and less support" as it was discussed during summer and fall meetings last year.
It's a long way from the cheerful reception that Huntsman received as an arriving U.S. Ambassador less than two years ago.
They stood and applauded before he even started speaking, including, gamely enough, Cameron himself, who had been somewhat less tumultuously received as he slipped into his seat in row eight.
The social studies curriculum recently approved by the Texas Board of Education, which will put a conservative stamp on textbooks, was received less as a pedagogical document than as the latest provocation in America's seemingly endless culture wars.
If the album was received less as an impressive jolt than as the fulfillment of a promise, there was ample reason for that: Mr. Marsalis had already skyrocketed to fame with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, widely regarded as jazz's premier finishing school.
At the other end of the spectrum, with SBA loans, women received less funding as well, $59,857 on average, versus $156,279 for men.
