For a full retirement award, work ability must be reduced by at least three-fifths, and for partial retirement award by two-fifths, over a period of at least one year [ 4, 6].
But although no prime minister wants duffers around his table, such jobs are not always awarded on ability alone.
By S. Strassberg and John McCarten The New Yorker, September 12 , 1959P. 45 A despondent father advised us in a burst of confidence the other day that the reason he was broody was that his ten-year-old son had come back from camp with a cup inscribed "This Prize Is Awarded for the Ability to Accept Defeat Gracefully".
The Kanchi ability awards recognise these challenges and focus on all aspects of employment, the built environment and customer service.
James Harding, the director of BBC news and current affairs, said: "Victoria has rightly won many awards for her ability to find the stories that matter in the lives of people in this country.
Using Kanchi's ability awards – already run under licence by Telefónica in Ireland and Spain – in five countries across the world, the two organisations aim to encourage businesses to think about how they can be age and disability friendly, in much the same way as they have had to think about being environmentally friendly in the last two decades.
Winslet makes an indelible impression playing Joanna Hoffman, in real life a key player on the Mac team who won in-house awards for her ability to stand up to the sometimes tirade-prone Jobs and later became Apple's head of manufacturing.
Admissions are highly selective and funding is awarded solely on ability, with parental income taken into account only when setting the exact level of support.
Late Saturday, both De La Hoya and Mayweather said that Mayweather's latest performance awarded him the ability to dictate terms.
The family "failed to demonstrate that the award exceeds their ability to pay," the three-judge panel said in its ruling.
