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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Universe of the Possible, Part II
When avenues are closed off, the human psyche tends to shut down; and when grounds manifest fertile regeneration and bountiful splendor, the endless state of the possible opens like the gaping eyes of...
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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Where Once, the Mirror Reflected
Communities are sensitive organisms; what constitutes one, how and when it is identified as such, and whether there exist any such entities, anymore, is of valid concern. Is a suburb comprised of...
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OPM FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement: To Be a Squirrel, for a Day
Watching them is an exercise of fascination; with nimble flight, to jump from a rooftop to the tip of a branch 10 feet away; scurry up and down trees with little thought (or is that merely a human...
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OPM FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement: The Declination of Laughter
The Declination of Laughter Does lack of laughter signify anything? If a person was known to laugh a lot, then one day comes in with nary a chuckle, is it significant at all? Is it the reverberation...
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Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: An Altered Life of Habituation
Loss of stature and status can come in many forms; we think too often in terms of financial status, of material belongings, where we live, with whom we associate, and the subtle evaluation of social...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Problem of the Lowest Common Denominator
What is wrong with going to the essence of the matter, skipping the process, and reducing everything to its lowest common denominator? Doesn’t efficiency demand such an approach? Isn’t the most...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Escaping the Feudal Paradigm
Anachronisms rarely die a sudden death; instead, they fade over time, with vestiges and residual skeletons of facades and structures remaining stubbornly in place for decades, and sometimes centuries....
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Unchosen
It is a term and concept which denotes a negation of what once was; like an unfinished paragraph or a torn page in a novel, the act of undermining and incompleteness is implied; and so the reader will...
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Reflections on Federal Disability Retirement this Independence Weekend
Each country has a symbolic date for celebrating independence; that historic marker which represents the freeing of a populace from the chains of tyranny. Some may view it as an anachronism, and in...
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Paradigm Shifts and the Federal Employee Disability Retirement System, an...
Paradigms are meant to shift. A non-shifting paradigm means that there is an inherent and entrenched belief system which refuses to accommodate changes. Certain principles can retain such intractable...
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