The decrepit Qing fell in 1911 and, at the start of the following year, Dr Sun, by virtue of his seniority as much as anything else, became provisional president of the Chinese republic.
It may be a limitation that information on seniority as well as musculoskeletal symptoms was based on self-reports, which may involve recall bias and differential misclassification.
"I don't see having spent time in the Senate and gaining seniority as a negative," said Ms. Oppenheimer, a senior member of the Senate Education Committee.
"I doubt they have the same seniority as men," said Mr. Johnson.
She emphasized, however, that Mr. Gore was not dismissing seniority as a qualification.
At Lovells, lawyers are paid primarily based on seniority, as they are in many European firms.
It removes teacher seniority as the top consideration during layoffs and streamlines the dismissal process for teachers who perform poorly.
Rigid salary structures in which pay rises with seniority (as in Japan) should also be replaced with more flexible ones.
"Abolish seniority as a factor in all personnel decisions," Zuckerberg wrote in September, 2010, in a summary of his agreement with Booker.
It is tempting to favor job title or seniority as criteria for distributing these goodies: rank has its privileges, and reasonably so in a meritocracy.
Mr. Vichnis, a sculptor by training, has enough seniority as a social worker so he can work a four-day week, and spend the fifth day with Sergei.
