Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At times, the magazine's agenda for getting America working again appears remarkably oblivious of important objections to its proposals--objections that emasculate the program's effectiveness. When suggesting a lowered minimum wage for workers under 20 years old, for example, Newsweek overlooks existing exceptions to the minimum wage law...
Airline pilots in India earn only about $18,300, far less than the $80,000 to $110,000 paid to U.S. jet captains. But the Indian pilot's perks, such as excellent away-from-home living accommodations, make his job the highest paying in India and bestow enormous social...
In recent years, the Faculty was experiencing great difficulty recruiting junior members, Gerrity explains. "Department chairmen have been screaming at the dean." With inflation, she says, the real value of all Faculty salaries plummeted 12-15 percent over the last decade, and a recent confidential survey of about 15 competing...
In an age when high-paying jobs in scientific industry--particularly in the rapidly expanding field of bio-engineering--are increasingly tempting alternatives for academics in the sciences. Harvard's old-fashioned approach to compensating its professors is growing rare. Many universities are unabashed about letting the free market dictate...
As Rosovsky describes it, the Faculty's salary structure depends on a criterion that holds more currency at Harvard than the exigencies of extramural commerce: age. This is verifiably true of junior-level salaries, which are determined according to one of two fixed public scales that apply uniformly to all...