Word: boarded
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Across the board, professors say personal experiences help them contemplate and understand the fields they study...
After tonight's elections, the president and vice president will create second-tier positions such as coordinators for campus outreach, transportation and program resources. The cabinet votes for those positions and for the Board of Trustees in December...
...Speaker prided himself on being a manager. He called himself the revolution's chairman of the board. He sent his assistants to military installations to learn management techniques. And he invited FORTUNE 500 chief executive officers to dinner to talk about restructuring large institutions--in this case, he had the U.S. Congress in mind. He rearranged the furniture in the House in ways that will affect every Speaker who follows him: gone are the dynastic committee chairs, who could foil any zealous Speaker's plans; Gingrich scrapped the seniority system and installed his own disciples, some of whom were three...
...required FSCs to be established "in any jurisdiction outside of the U.S. customs territory" and to maintain an office and hold a board-of-directors meeting once a year in the country where they were incorporated. Tourist paradises such as the U.S. Virgin Islands now began to think about bustling office buildings and banks to handle the transplants. The islands' Lieutenant Governor at the time, Julio Brady, told a Senate committee that FSCs would be "real businesses" that would employ "real people. We are not talking about dummy or paper corporations...
...possible to have 3,600 corporations and no visible presence? Easy. All the real work is still performed back in the U.S. The companies merely hire a local firm to maintain their records, open a bank account, conduct that annual board meeting and provide an offshore postal address. "FSCs are transparent companies," says a longtime agent on St. Thomas. "They don't really exist." To comply with the law, companies send their already processed sales invoices, brochures and other export literature in boxes to St. Thomas for mailing. Perhaps 50 islanders, mostly low-salaried clerical help, work...