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Students have both a positive and negative impact on Cambridge and today is their best opportunity to exert a constructive influence on the city's future...
...compulsory retirement is a traumatic experience for a worker, perhaps no less trying would be a situation in which he is downgraded at the office for a decade or more. Many companies already exert subtle and not so subtle pressure on older people to get them to retire. Says Detroit Attorney V. Paul Donnelly, who specializes in age-discrimination cases involving white-collar workers: "If they are going to do you in by age 53 and make you worthless, increasing the retirement age is not the answer. I believe it means nothing...
However interesting their troubles along the way, the legendary Tristan and Isolde would exert but small claim on anyone's imagination if, in the end, they were permitted to settle down in a split level to raise 2.4 children and give each other head colds. Death is, of course, the thing that finally and definitively separates lovers in our culture's greatest romances...
Boston, like all major American cities, has its fair share of worthless, bigoted politicians, but Boston is distinguished from other cities by the lack of influence residents and elected officials exert over issues that directly affect the city...
...restructuring of the board would enable the University to exert direct influence over the magazine's business and advertising affairs, such as subscription drives, Cronin said...