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Segal said she is optimistic that the initiative will increase awareness of Radcliffe, which she said is lacking. She said she is especially excited to see how the new program can benefit research at the vanguard of neurobiology, such as the study of sleep...
Sampson said the group plans to spend much of the upcoming academic year exploring possible focal points for investigation. Grosz said in the press release that she hopes that the initiative will not only expand the possibilities for work at Radcliffe, but that it will also benefit projects across the University...
...negative voices in Allston ring loud but they also ring few,” Yu said. “The majority of the community is excited about the benefit from this presence...
...benefit gap continues to expand in part because governments face a steady ramping up of collective bargaining demands. "Decisions about benefits changes can't be made instantaneously as they can be in the private sector," says Blaine Bos, a consultant for Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...
...private-sector workers in any but the ritziest of jobs. Some such plans, for instance, offer 100% coverage for basic surgeries with little if any co-pay, whereas private plans may require a $250 to $500 co-pay per surgery. In Massachusetts, for example, many local government employees enjoy benefit plans that have long since been phased out for private employees, who have seen plan standards tighten consistently in recent years. Increasingly, private sector employees across the country end up in euphemistically dubbed "consumer-directed health plans" which typically cost companies less because of higher deductibles and more restrictive care...