Word: perks
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...Roughly 2.3 million public school teachers in the U.S. have tenure - a perk reserved for the noblest of professions (professors and judges also enjoy such rights). The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired. The Teach for America alumna, who oversees some 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers, has sparked controversy in the capital by proposing a new contract allowing teachers to earn as much as $130,000 a year if they forgo their tenure rights (a teacher's salary, on average, is less than $48,000; most...
...given widespread corporate turmoil, perk-slashing isn't likely to stop at 401(k) plans. In the Watson Wyatt survey, a fifth of companies said they planned to eliminate or reduce training, cancel holiday parties and tighten travel policies. "These are all things about which companies say, 'Could we live without this for another year?' " says Tarantello. "But you don't want people retiring on the job. You want their hearts and minds...
...Elsevier’s managing director of journal publishing, Martin Tanke, said that Elsevier also launched PERK, a publishing ethics toolkit for journal editors, and a reference tool to strengthen the peer review process...
...response, the students began to design a more appropriate structure, choosing to use larger windows and other devices that harness the natural movement of air to create a passive ventilation system. And as an added perk, “these windows give amazing views of the Rwandan countryside,” Shioiri-Clark says...
...explained, “but I’m also following them.” The collaboration, with its call for increased consistency, made for “an exciting new opportunity,” in Olson’s words.The orchestra pit isn’t the only perk of performing in the New College Theatre. Larissa D. Koch ’08-’09, last year’s recipient of the Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize and the choreographer of the first of the performance’s four dances, says that the new performance venue...