Sweden has already adopted a measure raising the age for pension eligibility from 65 to 66 and eliminating sick pay for the first day of work missed.

These remedial actions have been taken in the intervening years: *Efforts have succeeded to eliminate "pay to play" practices.

But I wonder if that is because the Iran-contra affair has temporarily eliminated pay as a choice and those 10 years of horror in Vietnam prevent us from shooting.

Accordingly, directors' pay is likely to be linked to committee work, reversing a trend that began about five years ago to eliminate extra pay for attending committee meetings.

A third proposed eliminating legislative pay in the event of a state shutdown like the one that occurred in the summer of 2011.

In the early 1990's, the board developed regulations to eliminate "pay to play," the practice of underwriters making campaign contributions in exchange for public business.

The union struck over a company proposal to eliminate double pay for work on Sundays and holidays.

International Paper sought to eliminate double pay for working Sundays and holidays, and to eliminate 178 jobs through "team manning."

The paper mill, he said,presented a contract that eliminated double pay for work on Sundays and holidays and in the 970 workers the company hired to replace the strikers.

The company proposed eliminating premium pay for work on Sundays and holidays, and the paperworkers union walked out.