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Subject: NASA Goals and Objectives
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Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 10:07:00 EDT
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From:  WMartin at Office-3 (Will Martin)

Did anyone else notice the blatant age discrimination in the
report of Beggs' announced goals and objectives?

        "Hire 370 RECENT science and engineering graduates in 83
	 and 400 more in 84."

(My emphasis added.)  Specifying "recent graduates" is one of
the standard age-discrimination tactics constantly being pointed
out by Irwin Feerst and his Committee of Concerned EE's; instead
of hiring by pure ability, whereby you may hire older engineers who
earn higher salaries, you hire only cheaper new graduates.  (Of
course, the engineering pay system differentials have broken down
so far that the difference between a new graduate's and a senior
engineer's salaries is too small to allow reasonable career
progression these days.  This helps "encourage" the older
engineer to move into management or leave...)

Interesting that such a blatant example has been publicized so
widely; I hope some fuss gets raised over it.

Will Martin