For some reason people associate the word 'basic' with 'universal' and assume that everyone is entitled to the full-rate basic state pension when they achieve whatever retirement age is relevant for them to be entitled to payment.
This autumn's bidding for votes has shaken the implicit consensus, shared by all the parties, that the growing number of pensioners would put up with an ever-dwindling basic state pension.
As part of this change, derived entitlement to the basic state pension - where someone receives a married person's pension or a widow's or widower's pension based not on their own working life but the National Insurance record of their spouse or civil partner - will also go.
People of all walks were coming to take a basic stability and state of well-being for granted.
The government funded the Arpanet, the grand-daddy of the modern Internet, and much of the basic research in the U.S. State-supported universities train much of the high-tech workforce.
And the basic state pension will be re-linked in 2012 to earnings, which increase faster than prices.
That has opened the way to restoring the earnings link to the basic state pension, another no-go area for the chancellor, but an indispensable reform if means-testing is to be arrested and saving encouraged.
Diplomacy arises out of the fundamental character of the nation-state system, with its basic assumption that nation-states are autonomous, often divergent in their interests and unequal in their power.
It will involve merging the state second pension with the basic state pension, to create one flat-rate payment.
So whereas Tony Blair comfortably survived early left-wing revolts, over a miserly increase to the basic state pension and cuts to single parents' benefit, the 10p guerrillas rapidly extracted their concessions.
"We have started the planning and development of Sansha, including basic infrastructure, at full speed, " Tan was quoted by state-run Xinhua News Agency (Chinese).
Currently, everybody earning more than a basic income is legally required to make modest payments either towards the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme or into a private pension.
"We have started the planning and development of Sansha, including basic infrastructure, at full speed, " Tan was quoted as saying by state-run Xinhua News Agency (Chinese).
Consequently, he and Strickland faced the same basic challenge -- appeal to swing voters and, more important, introduce themselves to the state's new residents before their opponent did so.
State-of-the-art risk controls and professional supervision comprise the basic safety net investors and regulators expect from Wall Street.
The program is meant to walk taxpayers through military-related tax situations including state of residence, uniform deductions and PCS. It also distinguishes between basic pay and combat pay.
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Still, there has always been enough of a Tory radical about Mr Major to prevent his administration becoming a no-change government, a trait illustrated by its breathtaking decision this month to propose the privatisation of the basic state pension.
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