Word: stephenes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most firms won't be that accommodating. "We're talking about the people who are most vulnerable and career trapped," says Michele Varnhagen of the Pension Rights Center. People like Stephen Langlie, a retired engineer at Onan Corp., a Minnesota subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co., who claims his current, $420 monthly check under the cash-balance plan, to which the company switched in 1989, pales in comparison with the $1,500 projected under the old plan. Many colleagues have joined him in a class action against Onan...
...phenomenon are the new tools of the digital age: computer programs that turn the search for family trees into an addiction; websites that make it easy to find and share information; and chat rooms filled with folks seeking advice and swapping leads. "The Internet has helped democratize genealogy," says Stephen Kyner, editor of The Computer Genealogist magazine...
Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has long battled what he calls "Darwinian fundamentalism," dismisses the meme as a "meaningless metaphor." H. Allen Orr, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Rochester, isn't much nicer. "I think memetics is an utterly silly idea," he complains. "It's just cocktail-party science...
...surprising number of undergrads in [my course] have raised Kosovo in conversations with me, " wrote Associate Professor of Government Andrew M. Moravcsik in an e-mail. Moravcsik teaches Historical Studies A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World" with Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen...
...surprising number of undergrads in [my course] have raised Kosovo in conversations with me, "wrote Associate Professor of Government Andrew M. Moravcsik in an e-mail message. Moravcsik reaches Historical Studies A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World" with Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen...