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...collected upon retirement or as severance pay. Interest on principal goes to the school district's insurance fund. Since the stay-well program began in 1979, employees have become extremely cautious about running to the doctor. With reason: if a teacher remains in the district's employ for just three years, say, and draws only $50 a year for medical bills, he will receive a bonus of $1,350 when he quits. The school board profits too. By investing the deductible money in short-term Government notes, it has already earned...
...hear much about the thousands of people that Harvard has in its employ, because all of the unions settled for new contracts last year. One by one they lined up, and one by one the University voiced its offer and would give nothing more. In the Medical Area, of course, the union leaders couldn't line up because there is no union, because the last time they tried to establish one at the hospitals and in the laboratories, the University quelled the movement...
Most of the 50 or so manufacturers of residential windmills are relatively new and employ a handful of workers. The leader in the field, Enertech Corp. of Norwich, Vt., is five years old and has just 47 employees. Yet in the past twelve months, the company has sold 250 of its "Enertech 1500," a 6-ft.-long cylindrically shaped device that is capable of generating 1.5 kW of power in a stiff 21-m.p.h. breeze, enough to light 15 100-W light bulbs...
...every KGB spy abroad there are five working within the Soviet Union. The Second and Fifth Chief Directorates employ an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 agents who are responsible for domestic security, including operatives assigned to the surveillance of dissidents, foreign students, journalists and diplomats in the U.S.S.R. American security officers who searched the residence of one U.S. diplomat in Moscow in 1978 found 42 microphones...
Many were surprised that Carter would choose a non-educator, non-administrator to head the 13th Cabinet department, which will employ 17,000 and incorporate 131 of the 152 programs from the old Office of Education in the Department of Health Education and Welfare...