Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates predicted that the Encarta Africana will help fight racism by educating people from an early age. A second edition of the encyclopedia will be released this fall...
Upon hitting the age of 66, most professors were secure enough to retire to their homes--many of which were located in affluent Cambridge neighborhoods--living comfortably off their Harvard pensions...
...exemption to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act enjoyed by colleges and universities ran out at the end of 1993. No longer able to politely inform professors they were expected to retire by age 70, tenure now truly meant a job for life...
According to the letter, only 66 Faculty members have reached age 70 since 1993. But of that number, 43--or 65 percent--have retired...
That means the oldest members of the Faculty can often contribute significantly to their departments--even as the natural slow-down of age sets in, some Faculty members...