Word: third
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State Rep. Melvin H. King, the third of a trio that is expected to challenge White in the preliminary election on September 25, supported cooperative public housing units. King says private landlords "ought to go" from Boston...
Proof that talent was not only at the top of the ladder came last year when the Crimson took the team title in the Mass State tourney, tied for first in the GBCs and finished third in the New Englands...
...would be easy to confuse policy at Harvard. The University has a yearly turnover rate of one-third among its supporting staff. Cantor says it's a standard figure for educational institutions: "Most universities, Harvard included, have traditionally had large segments of staff made up of people in a transient stage of life. Their spouses may be going to graduate schools or they may want to get work experience... The system is geared to accept a changing work force which is non-academic...
Another way to improve morale is to liberalize promotions. Cantor says it is relatively easy for employees to move within non-exempt salary grades--one-third of Harvard's open positions are filled from within--but that the jump from secretarial or clerical work to administrative or professional jobs is a problem. "The trouble is that moving up in that area the number of positions becomes devilishly limited," Cantor says. A typical Harvard department might have ten office workers and one administrator, but an industry would have larger departments, with a foreman, three assistant foremen, six supervisors and many assistant...
...School had also had a turnover rate of 61 per cent in the school year 1977-78, when 27 of its 44 clerical and technical staff left. Its rate returned to about the University average of one-third last year. Cantor says he is not surprised by the high turnover, since the K-School had moved from Littauer Center to a new building. "Any organization that goes through rapid change almost inevitably experiences a fall-out. When the observatory lost the NASA program we had a whacking turnover rate. We all felt bad about it, but it happens. There...