Word: normalization
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...service--were given a 45-day consideration period during which they could decide to accept the incentive, followed by a 7-day period during which they could reconsider. The first wave began on Feb. 17, and the second began on March 16.Galvin said that in addition to Harvard's normal pension benefits, staff members who accepted the buyout packages received a one-time retirement lump-sum payment equal to one year's annual salary, a "bridge benefit" of $750 per month until Social Security eligibility at age 62, and a waiver on the "rule of 75"--which stipulates that...
...higher interest rates usually signal better economic times ahead, not worse. For instance, the yield on the 10-year government bond rose nearly 20% in November 2001 - the last month of that recession. Indeed, many economists believe the rise in interest rates now signals a return to normal, and not a sign that we are in for more trouble...
Still, it is likely to be a while before we hit that new normal. Rosenberg points out that during the Great Depression, the worst of GDP contraction and stock-market losses had hit by the early 1930s. And yet the malaise carried on for the rest of the decade. Unemployment hung above 15%, and people didn't spend money. "Even people who had the means didn't go on buying sprees. That's not how they lived," says Rosenberg. We may now be in for some of the same...
...Before the current financial crisis began in 2007, U.S. corporate profits were at their highest level ever, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of gross domestic product. It's awfully hard to imagine a return to that kind of profitability anytime soon. Welcome to the new normal...
...years in Yodok for trying to escape the country. "I was always hungry and cold," he says, recalling life in the camp. He remembers scavenging for dead rodents and snakes to eat. "When I found one, that would be a good day," he says. At his camp, it "was normal for the prison guards to be cruel. No one had hope or cared about anything," says Kim, who was finally released. The camps' pervasive sense of hopelessness is a common theme woven through many defectors' accounts, says Peters. "Any sense of justice is completely absent," he says. "People often...