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...state's largest private employer, allows all its 15,900 workers to pick their own date of retirement, provided they are doing a satisfactory job. "We don't make generalized assumptions about age and its effect on productivity," says Susan Stone, director of communications. "We try to focus on the employee and his manager rather than set hard and fast rules. It's a pay-for-performance situation. We have people over 65 doing a heck of a job, no matter where we put them." Texas Refinery, a petroleum-products manufacturer in Fort Worth, prefers to hire older people. Says...
Working out a formula that would allow some Palestinian presence at Geneva was the focus all week long of intense diplomatic bargaining as Israel's Moshe Dayan and Arab foreign ministers shuttled between Washington and New York City. Israel got in the first blow by announcing on Sunday that 64-year-old Premier Menachem Begin-who later in the week was hospitalized with exhaustion-and his Cabinet had accepted that Palestinians, but not known members of the P.L.O., could be present at the opening ceremonies in Geneva as members of a pan-Arab delegation, but only within the Jordanian...
History courses, Rosovsky told the fundraisers, will focus on the historical context of contemporary problems or on topics that illustrate "the complexity of events...
Panel discussions following the April 15 keynote speech will focus on the way women work within the traditional law firm structure, alternate careers, and latest law developments as they affect women. A fourth panel is tentatively titled "Towards a Feminist Jurisprudence," Kuehl said. One confirmed panelist is Brenda Feigen-Fastau, who operates a feminist law firm in New York...
This was the reason for creating a "revolutionary focus" in Bolivia. Che was an agrarian revolutionary; he didn't believe that revolution would come about when the time was right, led by workers in the cities. A revolution could come about anytime the population was oppressed, if only their resentment could be channeled into a revolutionary force. In Bolivia, they could not be. Organized in the fall of 1966, the group blundered about for eleven months. Che made many tactical errors. Instead of expanding, as the poor rushed to join them, the group suffered steady losses in skirmishes and from...