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Anticipating potential benefit cuts, people could save more now to supplement their future retirement income and to cushion against future health care costs or they could choose to work longer and delay retirement.
But think about this: if rate increases are implemented in January---which the Service has indicated is likely---and the Service's best estimate from just this past July is on target, the Postal Service should be sitting on a sizable cushion at the end of this fiscal year.
They sponsored evidence challenging the need for a cushion so substantially above and beyond the Postal Service's own best estimate of future increases in the cost of collecting, processing and delivering the mail.
Samples were layered over 0.3 ml of a cushion composed of 5 parts of dibutyl phthalate and 3 parts of di-isodecyl phthalate (density 20 = 1.01) and centrifuged at approximately 14,000 × g . After removing the supernatant and phthalate oil, the base of the tube was severed with a razor blade and the stub, which contained the pellet, was recovered for radioactivity counting.
The aqueous portion of the extraction was layered onto a cushion of 5.7 M CsCl in ultracentrifuge tubes.