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...though he did concede to wearing shorts for about 10 or 15 days last winter. He once stepped outside in his shorts and "went back inside and put on some pants," since the temperature that day was -40F with wind-chill, about ten degrees colder than his estimated cutoff for wearing pants. Don only owns one pair of jeans, but is thinking of "splurging" and buying another one. Don, Dave and Mike all succumb to wearing pants on formal occasions...
...most vigorous debates centered on the age cutoff, which was finally set at 40. Some staff members argued that the limit should be even higher, at age 50. People are living longer, they pointed out, and women who have children often don't come into their own until after their offspring become self-sufficient. "Finally, we decided to err on the side of youth," Seaman says. "To some extent, it was an arbitrary choice. But we wanted people who would be making a difference well into the next century...
According to the report, the 17.5 hours cutoff is lower than that of several area employers, such as Polaroid and the Bank of Boston, and that of all Ivy League schools except Brown...
Students still working when libraries close find the cutoff jarring and inconvenient...
Although Georgetown has no numerical cutoff for applicants, the admissions director said "numbers count...