The practice of incurring corporate IOUs for executives' pensions and past pay is perfectly legal and is common in big business, not limited to financial firms.

公司递延高管退休金和以往薪水的做法绝对合法，在大公司里也很常见，并不仅限于金融公司。

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Australia has its own Future Fund, where it sets aside money to pay for the pensions of public-sector workers.

澳大利亚也有自己的未来基金，其公共部门员工的养老金就出自该基金。

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A state bankruptcy law, on the other hand, would prepare for a possible future calamity: the inability of some states to pay for workers' pensions and health care.

从另一方面说，州破产法将可能引起未来的灾难，一些州可能无力支付工人的退休金和医疗费用。

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Those taxes wouldn't defray my pension for more than a few years--and they've already been used to pay the pensions of those who retired years and years ago.

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Norway is salting away a big chunk of its oil income in a State Petroleum Fund to help pay the pensions of its ageing population when oil and gas production tails off.

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The short answer is that much of the lending has gone not to guarantee the deposits of deserving savers, nor even to pay the pensions of impoverished old folk or the wages of unpaid miners.

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