Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although higher education officials like Ernst Benjamin, the general secretary of the American Association of University Presidents, say that "national studies are showing that there won't be a problem," Benjamin concedes that the new law may have an effect at certain schools...
...Harvard, according to Benjamin and other national experts, is exactly the kind of research university with excellent facilities and a large endowment that may suffer the effects of the new law, as faculty members decide to hold on to their lifetime posts as long as possible...
...when Congress passed the federal law forbidding employers to set a mandatory retirement age, it gave universities a seven-year exemption so that they could readjust their benefit plans and insure that they could maintain a high quality staff...
Although universities around the country are planning to lobby Congress to extend their exemption from the law, national experts and Harvard administrators say they expect the new law will go into effect as originally planned...
...that happens, administrators and faculty members say the University will change its pension and benefit plans for professors. But they are less certain about the law's effects on faculty hiring--some say they are afraid a hiring stoppage could occur, though most are concerned that there may end up being too few, rather than too many, faculty members...