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It's Just a Matter of Time Till Your Company Drops Its Defined-Benefit Retirement Plan
Slate

[Opinion]
Jan. 30, 2006

Excerpt: Until recently, the cram-down -- the process in which a company walks away from pension and benefit promises -- had generally been confined to failed companies like Delphi. Struggling companies frequently terminate their pension plans and push the liabilities onto the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

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