It points to an actuarial valuation carried out by the trustees of the USS in March – a process that weighed up the value of the scheme's assets against the amount needed to pay pension rights already accrued, finding a £8bn shortfall.
Academics at newer universities won't be affected by this dispute because they are included in the Teachers PensionsSchememe, rather than USS – a scheme which is due to be reformed from April 2015.
Universities UK (UUK) said earlier this month that the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the pension scheme for academics and senior administrative staff at pre-1992 unisersities is not sustainable.
The proposal to end final salary arrangements would only concern members who joined the USS before 2011 (the 49,000 people who joined after this date will have automatically entered a career average scheme).
UUK say the USS pensions scheme for academics at pre-1992 unisersities is unaffordable.
That is a reputation that Paul has tried hard to shake, even going as far as to deliver a mildly hawkish speech in front of USS Yorktown, a decommissioned aircraft carrier in South Carolina.
A US military official confirmed that the US has three ships in the Gulf of Aden: the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, the amphibious landing dock USS San Antonio, and the dock landing ship USS Carter Hall.
The report details how accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed "in a forward facing position (Trendelenburg) with head lower than torso", whilst undergoing rectal feeding.
This depends on when they entered the USS and how much they earn.
The USS Enterprise has always been propelled by fan power - a letter-writing campaign (the Twitter storm of its time) prompted Paramount to make a third and final season of the original show, which lasted just over two and a half years.
Not since terrorists blew up the USS Cole two years ago, killing 17 crew and injuring many more, has the threat seemed so apparent.
