Instead, diplomats hope the prospect of food and safety in Rwanda will encourage some voluntary separation.

A: There may be another voluntary separation program as a response to the budget situation.

Employees in certain cases of either involuntary separation, or voluntary separation during a "reduction in force" can qualify for early retirement.

Doctors and pilots, for example, who received a re-enlistment bonus because they are in short supply, would not be accepted for voluntary separation.

Her voluntary separation from you offered to your brother, and to the Captain, the opportunity for which they had both been waiting.

The company has announced that its workforce will reduce by up to 1,350 workers later this year through a combination of voluntary and involuntary separations.

Michael R. Haverty, the company's president, said in a news release that nearly all of the reductions would be made through voluntary separation and early retirement.

It was as close to a voluntary separation as could be attained, one based on sheer force of logic.

But as it matured, produced its own offspring, and moved farther up the line I feel sure that voluntary separation became possible.

I should think that the first time such a voluntary separation took place a certain amount of psychological trauma would be present.