Word: basic
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...revenue fails to keep up with inflation, Parsons says, communities are forced to reduce education budgets and cut back on basic services such as police protection and garbage pickup...
Actual unification might be simpler than it appears. Article 23 of West German Basic Law, the country's constitution, provides that other German states can simply accede to the Federal Republic. Some legal experts in Bonn interpret that to mean that East Germany or its individual states can simply announce that they are joining the West. If the East were to choose the route of Article 23, the Munich daily Suddeutsche Zeitung observed, "reunification through Anschluss would hit the Federal Republic like a thunderbolt." The rest of Europe would feel...
...With the uncapping of retirement, tenure becomes a guarantee of lifetime work," says James Vinson, president of the University of Evansville in Indiana. Many schools have begun to nudge older professors out the door with a variety of enticements. Johns Hopkins University decided three years ago to increase the basic pension payments of departing 65-year-olds by 20% to 30% -- a bonus that shrinks the longer they stay. Beloit College in Wisconsin has a program that eases professors into retirement while younger colleagues, with whom they are paired as mentors, are phased into full-time teaching positions...
...Kentucky-born Sharp, a professor of biology and director of MIT's Center for Cancer Research, is an extremely respected scholar whom some believe will eventually win a Nobel Prize in Medicine: He has already won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, second in prestige only to the Nobel. His nomination was widely hailed by the MIT community...
...Soviet citizen, one of the most galling aspects of the current political order is not that it is predicated on a bankrupt ideology but that it is so manifestly inegalitarian. In what is supposedly a classless society, life for the masses is a ceaseless hustle to acquire the most basic goods while for party bigwigs, the nomenklatura, it is relatively sweet, thanks to their access to all manner of worldly offerings. With resentments over these inequities rapidly growing as the economy deteriorates, Central Committee members last week reportedly did something that privileged elites rarely do: they voted to give...