Re: Help translate "business French" sentence

Voici ma traduction équivalente pour la phrase globale:
"Les retraites des régimes salariés et des régimes indépendants antérieurs

au premier janvier 2008 ont été revalorisés"
goog week end
Christine

"JClark" <jclark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a écrit dans le message de news: 
aj04g3hnfaa49uftc0d304iv5ougk9ki7u@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello Group,
>
> I usually don't have much trouble translating ordinary or literary
> French, with the aid of my dictionary, of course, but the following
> sentence (from a letter to a friend) seems to be in a business or
> commercial form or a type of what we Americans call "legalese". I am
> having trouble translating it with any feeling of security. Any help
> would be very much appreciated. Here's the sentence:
>
> "Les pensions des régimes salarié et indépendant dont la prise de
> cours est antérieure au 1er janvier 1988 sont adaptées au bien-être à
> partir de septembre 2007."
>
> Picking the sentence apart, it seems that the subject and verb are:
>
> Les pensions .........sont adaptées. (?? Pensions are adjusted.)
> des régimes salarié et indépendant ( I wonder why it isn't "salariés
> et indépendants?) My grammar may be failing me here. salariés : wage 
> earner
> la prise de cours (beginning of the course?)
> The other phrases seem obvious.
>
> I seem to grasp the general meaning of the sentence, but I would
> really appreciate it if an accurate translation can be done.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Jack
>