Under the current system, after spending 27 months at the school, students are offered lifelong employment with the government.

Of course, lifelong employment is hardly dead; it serves the companies and workers' needs in many ways.

The availability of lifelong employment in a single company has become increasingly untenable for both corporations and individuals.

Despite a contract that guaranteed "lifelong employment", he fired the papers' typographers.

Fourth, the trialogue agreement did not constitute a commitment on teachers benefiting from lifelong employment.

Divorced men, by contrast, typically had lifelong employment, generating a private pension plus higher Social Security benefits.

Mia Farrow's fulfillment seems complete: companionship, children and what seems to be lifelong employment in a career of her choice.

Mr. Sasaki, 31, is among the growing ranks of Japanese workers in this land of lifelong employment who have followed their dreams out the office door.

IBM Japan said it will not consider measures that would force employees out despite its economic woes because of customary lifelong employment in Japan.

I.B.M.'s Troubles End in Layoffs The bargain, though, was founded on the company's tacit assurance of lifelong employment.

The school also offers a Regional Occupation Program (ROP) in Virtual Enterprise, which provides skills to seek lifelong employment.

Members of the sixties youth culture vowed to be the first generation not to "sell out": they just wouldn't buy a ticket for the express train with the sign reading "lifelong employment."

The cuts at the nation's biggest companies obliterated for many the expectation of lifelong employment with a single employer, and made restructuring and career insecurity a permanent part of the landscape.

Successful graduation from the demanding school in 1965 entitled him to lifelong employment in the French bureaucracy, and near the top in his class, he chose the economic division of the Foreign Ministry.

I know this idea will cause excruciating pain to US reader, but his kind of shenanigans won't happen with well paid civil servants, with lifelong employment, that would be dedicated to serving the public.

But critics of President Carlos Saul Menem's Government said the large turnout reflected just how desperate Argentines have become after years of record unemployment and declining salaries in a country that was accustomed to lifelong employment.

The pay for these workers was also some- thing other than the highly adequate wage structure of the assembly workers, and though the lifelong employment covenant was becoming fiction even for the elite workers, it had never existed at all for the others.

The Communist Party leadership says that structural changes deferred in 1994 will be resumed in 1995, with the emphasis on building a social security and unemployment insurance system to catch workers falling out of the "iron rice bowl" of lifelong employment in state enterprises.

And, they say, as a final slap to the taxpayers who finance public institutions, professors have created an inflexible tenure system that guarantees them lifelong employment at a time when almost no one but Federal judges and Supreme Court Justices enjoys that privilege.