Word: packetizing
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Those positions that are vacated as a result of the severance program will be scrutinized by several “work review” groups to decide whether to eliminate the position or refill it. According to an informational packet sent to eligible employees in late February, the HMS administration will make every effort to avoid hiring new employees for the vacated positions. Meanwhile, supervisors are not permitted to recommend that staff members accept or deny the package, because employees who deny the package now and are laid off at a later date would not be eligible for its benefits...
McLoughlin cited inequity as the primary reason for the mailing’s discontinuation. He said only a small percentage of Harvard’s 295 campus organizations were sent an information slip explaining how to be included in the packet...
FEMALES SCORNED When males are in short supply, females can become fierce competitors. Female house sparrows and great reed warblers, whose males often take two mates, may try to smash a rival's eggs. Unattached smooth newt females will steal a male's sperm packet just as he deposits it for his mate. Midwife toads are even more proactive: jealous females will tear copulating couples asunder...
...Officers were sent to 44 Brattle St. on a report of suspicious activity. A person reported that there was a rodent poison packet mixed in with hot chocolate packets in a public drawer in the party’s office. Police said yesterday they believe the placement of the poison was intentional and the incident is under investigation...
...some little cigars, and back to cigarettes. In the 80s, while at the Cannes Film Festival, I discovered a brand with a droll name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort, s'il-vous plait." In Italy, they're pronounced Mor-ay: nearly the Italian word for love.) Since the mid-90s I've bought Capri Menthol 120s, a cigarette so svelte and mild that, I joke, smoking them makes you live longer...