Word: baiter
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...Most of the schools across the University will inform staff workers of the layoffs this week, but the Medical School, FAS, and central administration will begin the process next Monday. Baiter said that the spaced-out timeline will only induce hand-wringing from staff workers awaiting the day that their division breaks the news...
...hell are they doing that? This means that people who didn’t take the package—who probably should have—are going to think, ‘Oh my God, I’m on the chopping block,’” Baiter said. “Everybody’s going to be totally uneasy all week long...
...It’s awful because everyone’s been talking about this for days,” said Beth Baiter, shortly after receiving the e-mail this morning. Baiter, a staff assistant at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, said the sense of unsettling expectation preceding the arrival of the news provoked speculation among her colleagues
...Indeed, the current army chief, Rookmangud Katawal, has a reputation for being a strident royalist and Maoist baiter. Katawal had been adopted by Mahendra, the father of King Gyanendra, whom the Maoists fought hard to bring down in their aim to abolish the monarchy. The army chief has long resisted the induction of the PLA into the Nepal army, and he courted trouble last November by beginning recruitment of 3,000 new soldiers before any former PLA guerrillas had been folded in - a move made without permission from the Ministry of Defense and against the provisions of the peace agreement...
...decisions will be made by top FAS administrators. Employees will be given at least 60 days notice.“They can’t make [budget deficits] go away by cutting out cookies and coffees. They do need to get rid of personnel,” said Beth Baiter, a 69-year-old staff assistant at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. “Given my age, I would probably be one of the early ones to be laid off.”Despite the stated voluntary nature of the retirement program, Kaufman said he would have felt...