Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these blustery mike-men and the looney callers are exceptions rather than the rule on the air-waves. In an age where politicians and the exorbitantly paid television anchors who cover them seem to have more in common with each other than with the public, talk radio provides an open forum, a marketplace of ideas, where citizens of all political backgrounds can voice their opinions...
...federal law prohibiting a mandatory retirement age is slated to take effect at universities around the country then, and many higher education experts say they fear that one result will be a logjam in hiring at schools such as Harvard...
...when Congress passed the federal law forbidding employers to set a mandatory retirement age, it gave universities a seven-year exemption so that they could readjust their benefit plans and insure that they could maintain a high quality staff...
According to a national study conducted by the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA), 80 percent of professors surveyed said they plan to retire before age 70. At Harvard, about 45.6 percent of the faculty will be 70 at the end of the next decade...
...that the field has come of age--it's exciting and draws good people. A second reason is the widespread awareness among college administrators of demographic problems in recruiting minority students, and the hope that black studies will be a way to increase their numbers. Along with that, colleges are also looking to increase minority faculty recruitment," Appiah said...