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...different motivations for young and old workers: "For older workers, a job is far more than merely a paycheck. In fact, older people and younger workers tested significantly differently on seven of the eight reasons for working tested in the survey. The exception: Nearly seven-in-ten older workers (68%) say the desire 'to feel like a useful and productive person' is a big reason they work. It is the single most frequently mentioned factor among the eight and the only one in which a similar proportion of younger workers (70%) share this view." (Read "Making Flexible Retirements Work...
...Left teaching in 1983 to work as his father's private secretary. Three years later, assumed his father's seat in parliament and was re-elected seven times. Ironically, Hatoyama's party seeks to end the tradition of inherited parliament posts...
Students and faculty at the Medical School began circulating a petition after administrators cut funding for the already-unglamorous Primary Care Division, and Harvard University Press laid off seven employees and closed its 61-year-old display room in the Holyoke Center due to sagging sales figures...
...individual said that Harrington is now directing the department of administration and finance, which recently reduced its staff from seven people to four. Harrington could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...incident in 2004, hundreds of Muslim protesters in the village of Tak Bai were rounded up by security forces, stuffed like sardines into trucks and left to roast in the heat during a drive to an army detention center in Pattani. At least 78 people suffocated to death, and seven others died during the demonstration itself. Then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose administration had taken a particularly hard line in the south, claimed that the detainees might have succumbed because it was Ramadan and they were weakened by religious fasting. An inquest this May acknowledged that the victims had died...