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...also attributed rising costs to increasingly generous benefit programs and rising social security costs, as well as a national force beyond Harvard's control: the rapidly escalating costs of health care itself...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Faculty Budget: Good and Very, Very Bad | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

Lauk also has calculated that the effective German work week amounts to only 29.9 hours after factoring in paid vacation time, holidays and generous sick-day provisions...

Author: By Benjamin Auspitz, | Title: Is the Grass Any Greener in Europe? | 2/18/1994 | See Source »

...said that a larger number of participantsin benefit programs, increasingly generous benefitpackage and rising social security costs have alsocontributed to the rising costs...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: $52M Shortfall For Funding Fringe Benefits | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...Mother Harvard tells all of us that we have to contribute money right now in order to show that we care. What's more, our supposedly independent gift will be judged generous or not generous--"special" or not, as the committee euphemistically refers to it--on the basis of our parents' income, not ours...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: Give the Senior Gift (the Boot) | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

After four years of participating in this type of generous giving, Harvard informs me and all my fellow seniors that we must be trained to start giving for real. Could it be that Harvard College, supposedly one of the best liberal arts colleges in the world, does not understand that giving can take many forms...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: Give the Senior Gift (the Boot) | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

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