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...lengthening the term of the residency overall. In Roshanravan's native Switzerland, where she attended medical school subsidized by the government, she says the family-medicine specialty takes five years, not three as in the U.S. But that would require an even longer postgraduation period of low pay and accrual of debt in this country. "I don't think people want to have to wait to pay off all of that debt," says Roshanravan...
...another page or site - had been invented by Ted Nelson in the early 1960s with the goal of enabling micropayments for content. He wanted to make sure that the people who created good stuff got rewarded for it. In his vision, all links on a page would facilitate the accrual of small, automatic payments for whatever content was accessed. Instead, the Web got caught up in the ethos that information wants to be free. Others smarter than we were had avoided that trap. For example, when Bill Gates noticed in 1976 that hobbyists were freely sharing Altair BASIC, a code...
...contract reads, “Employees shall be eligible to use accrued vacation upon accrual...
...aggressive investors who own "zeros," which rise and fall about twice as fast as regular T-bonds. Zeros, up 9.3% in the third quarter, aren't as exotic as they sound. You may know them as TIGERS (Treasury income growth receipts) from Merrill Lynch or CATS (certificates of accrual on Treasury securities) from Salomon Smith Barney. Basically, a zero is a bond that pays no current interest and is sold at a deep discount to its face value. The interest payments are built into the price at which the holder redeems the bond when it matures in five...
...issue lie. But his camp thought it had to shake the chessboard. Kerrey has virtually no chance of winning Georgia or any of the large states up for grabs next week, including Texas and Florida. So his ploy is to drive down Clinton's numbers while pursuing a "delegate accrual" strategy -- targeting specific districts in the hope of picking up small blocs of delegates in many states. He also looks west, striving for a base that will keep him in the contest until the final primaries in June. When Kerrey did begin advertising again at week...