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...while older workers are often eager to cross such a bridge, many companies haven't built it yet. Antiquated pension rules continue to push older workers out the door by penalizing or just not rewarding service beyond a given date. Some younger workers assume seniors can't keep pace with fast-changing technology and business pressures. Many also believe older workers strain payroll and benefits packages, although a recent AARP/Towers Perrin study showed that keeping older workers costs employers just 1% to 3% more than the cost of replacing them. Half of employers make no attempt at all to retain...
...them. Now, in a somewhat more enlightened era, we are made to feel pity and even a touch of terror for them. Shrewdly positioned as a romance rather than a message movie, Brokeback comes at us quietly. We really like these guys--one rough-hewn and silent, the other eager and somewhat unformed--and the picture's unforced, almost casual realization keeps us sympathetically involved with them even when their fates lead them into uncharted territory...
...health care and other programs is even smaller as a proportion of the economy than previously thought. And industrialization is taking a toll. Several industries, including steel and automobiles, have been growing so rapidly that they now have problems of overcapacity. Still, with 300 million rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push, and at wages that are a small fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on jobs and salaries worldwide is likely to continue. Ford's late-January restructuring, involving 30,000 job losses, demonstrates that theme...
...ourselves at length to the administration about Deborah Foster’s situation,” Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie Buckler wrote in an e-mail yesterday afternoon. “University Hall seems responsive, even apologetic. This is a very hopeful sign, but we are eager for more than assurances,” Buckler added...
...revisiting one’s performance on a fall final or paper decreases. In many classes, finals and papers are never returned to students unless those students seek them out. This pedagogically bankrupt practice should end, but in the meantime, learning about grades earlier will encourage the most eager or most surprised students to pursue explanations of their course performance and learn from their experiences. Often, end-of-term feedback can be the most rewarding feedback for students, and too often, students are deprived...