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Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: New York Public Library Picture Collection Online 2007

The document specifically targets San Francisco's police officers and firefighters for essentially gaming the system through "spiking" - the practice of artificially inflating retirement benefits by increasing their compensation just before retiring, often through temporary promotions.

Latest Articles 2009

Some Agile teams have used the term iteration 0 or sprint 0 - as a first development timebox set aside for this initial research along with getting the development environment setup and ready to go, and doing some initial architectural prototyping or "spiking" - the rough equivalent of high level design from an architectural perspective.

Usabilidoido [ feed completo ] 2008

Another, known as spiking,'' involves employees nearing retirement who are suddenly given a new job title with a dramatic boost in salary.

Boston.com Top Stories 2011

Pension spiking occurs when compensation is inflated during the worker's last year.

Home By JIM ABRAMS 2010

Also remember that the spiking is a very small portion of the shortfall. 8% to be exact.

WOWT - HomePage - Headlines 2010

"spiking" - big increases in a government worker's salary just before retirement to

WN.com - Business News 2010

He mentions how employees game the system by "spiking" the hours worked in the last year before retirement to raise their benefits, deceptive pension accounting practices and lack of political will to tackle pension problems.

Some Pensions Invite Corruption 2010

Mr. Schwarzenegger declared in May that he wouldn 't sign a budget unless lawmakers and unions agreed to roll back pensions for new hires, increase employee contributions to their savings, curb pension "spiking" abuses and increase the transparency of pension boards.

Arnold 2010