Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...committee has not yet completed a report, but its members say they will discuss everything from the practical issue of redesigning the pension plan to the vaguer concern that older professors holding tenure positions indefinitely may prevent the promotion of younger faculty members...
...schools are trying to figure out what they should do to create the right environment so that faculty can graciously retire at the appropriate time," says Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott, who sits on Spence's committee and also heads a University-wide group investigating changes in pension and benefit plans after...
...result by more than a percentage point, taking 11.8% of the vote and 17 seats. The returns seemed to reflect less a sudden shift in the electorate's ideological complexion than a general dissatisfaction with the larger parties. Chronic housing shortages, spiraling rents, tightened health and pension programs and a continuing influx of ethnic Germans and asylum-seeking refugees all conspired to deal the Christian Democrats what Diepgen called a "devastating reversal...
...seems like a sensational deal. After a mere two or three years of work, retire on a pension that will finance decades of carefree living. Such a bargain is in fact available -- but only to chimpanzees. Some 80 chimps are involved in a research project in San Antonio in which they are injected with the AIDS virus; they develop some clinical symptoms but not the full disease and have every prospect of living out their normal life-span of 40 to 60 years. They are, however, useless for further research, and it seems imprudent to release the AIDS-infected primates...