Word: agee
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Roughly 500 of the union’s members would satisfy the program’s age and term of employment criteria, Jaeger estimated...
...University announced its early retirement plan Tuesday as a way for eligible staffers—those over 55 years of age who have worked at the University for at least 10 years as of this June 30—to voluntarily choose early retirement, relieving pressure on the University’s dwindling resources. Harvard officials said yesterday that each incentive package would likely consist of a lump-sum payment...
...During a less severe economic recession in 1991, the University created a similar early retirement incentive program for all non-faculty employees over the age of 55 with at least 10 years of service...
...stepped off of my train, Union Station was swarming with people, completely transformed from the last and only time I had ever been in Washington, D.C., four years ago. It was 9:40 PM, and the place was a hub of activity: women in floor-length coats, college-age kids milling around, and swarms of police guarding gates. I had made it. I had packed up my room at Harvard two days before, spent less than 24 hours at home, and now had made my dream of being in Washington D.C. to see this inauguration come true...
...skeptical students—these courses would bear more resemblance to your favorite extracurricular than to your Lit and Arts A Core. The quirky subject matter would bring students of similar interests together and create some fast friendships. The (lack of) age difference would erase much of the resentful divide between teacher and student, leading to discussion seminars that are truly group-driven, not individual-driven, as too many fall and spring sections are. Finally, students would be no less likely to write a final paper for a peer than for a professor. We do far more work...