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Not everybody who reaches the so-called retirement¹ age is ready to retire, but they may be ready for a change. And Intel would like some of its employees to have some help. Since 2012, the tech giant has paid some of its retirees a stipend² while they try out completely new jobs at nonprofit organizations. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on encore careers.

INA JAFFE, BYLINE³: Sixty-one-year-old Gail Dockerty is poring over a spreadsheet on her computer at the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Oregon. The former Intel project manager is combining patient data with input⁵ from doctors and nurses. She's trying to figure out a better way of delivering care to the center's high number of patients with diabetes⁶.

GAIL DOCKERTY: So I took that body of data. And from that out of my own non-medical, non-health care world had kind of proposed a workflow that seemed like from what I was hearing might be the most helpful thing for our patients.

JAFFE: Those patients are migrant workers and others who have no health insurance or who qualify for Medicaid. Dockerty says the skills from her old job fit in with the mission here, even though the two jobs couldn't be more different.

DOCKERTY: At Intel, deadlines are king. You've got a product. You've got to get it out either first or by the time you promised. Schedules are key. Here, not so much because what's primary is the patient care.

JAFFE: Dockerty is what's known as an Encore Fellow. She'll work at the health center part time for about a year and receive a stipend of $25,000. This is part of a nationwide program started by encore.org to bring retiring corporate⁷ workers into mission-driven organizations. You may have heard messages about it on NPR and other media outlets⁸.

But Intel is the only company that pays the stipend for its retiree's fellowships as a basic employee benefit. In the past five years, it's meant about a thousand fellowships at a cost to the company of more than $30 million.

OGDEN REID: But in the scheme of our total labor⁹ costs, it's a very small number.

JAFFE: Says Ogden Reid, Intel's vice¹⁰ president for human resources.

REID: We feel like we're helping¹¹ our communities. Our retirees give us really positive feedback about it. And our workforce¹² that's here see that happening to folks who've had a long career. And I think that makes them feel good about the company.

JAFFE: Right now, there are seven Encore Fellows at the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. Gil Munoz, the CEO, says they play a crucial role.

GIL MUNOZ: They bring a certain discipline, certain rigor¹³ to looking at problems and solving them. And having these Encore Fellows who could help lead a project can be the key to whether it's successful or not.

JAFFE: That may be why 73-year-old Jinny Meade's still here. She came to the health center a couple of years ago as an Encore Fellow. Now she's a permanent part-time employee working as a project consultant¹⁴.

JINNY MEADE: I'm sort of the nag⁴ that helps them stay on track as much as possible.

JAFFE: And it's not just the management skill she can bring to Virginia Garcia that she finds rewarding, it's what she's getting back.

MEADE: It's really exciting to be part of something that's sort of bigger than ourselves. And health care for the underserved is a worthy¹⁵ cause.

JAFFE: And in Meade's case, a second career. Ina Jaffe, NPR News.

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1 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

2 stipend   

n.薪贴；奖学金；养老金

参考例句：

• The company is going to ajust my stipend from this month onwards.从这一个月开始公司将对我的薪金作调整。
• This sum was nearly a third of his total stipend.这笔钱几乎是他全部津贴的三分之一。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 nag   

v.(对…)不停地唠叨；n.爱唠叨的人

参考例句：

• Nobody likes to work with a nag.谁也不愿与好唠叨的人一起共事。
• Don't nag me like an old woman.别像个老太婆似的唠唠叨叨烦我。

5 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

6 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

7 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

8 outlets   

n.出口( outlet的名词复数 )；经销店；插座；廉价经销店

参考例句：

• The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

10 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

11 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

12 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

13 rigor   

n.严酷，严格，严厉

参考例句：

• Their analysis lacks rigor.他们的分析缺乏严谨性。||The crime will be treated with the full rigor of the law.这一罪行会严格依法审理。

14 consultant   

n.顾问；会诊医师，专科医生

参考例句：

• He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
• Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。

15 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。