Word: commiting
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...smothered by departmental curriculums, the CRC voices qualms that a Core program with departmental bypasses would go the way of the General Education Program. The CRC Working Paper of Feb. 28 states that a Core with departmental bypasses will fail because of "no incentive for faculty to commit to the extra burdens of preparing and teaching Core courses...
...because there are more jobs than good people," says Jeff Streitenberger, a partner in Personnel Solutions, the largest employment agency in Chillicothe. "I could place half again as many workers every week if I could just find qualified, appropriate applicants." By that they mean those willing to commit to a job in an economy that so often in the past has not been willing to commit to them. The ruthlessness of companies is now turning against them. The manager at the Kroger supermarket started offering employees a $100 bonus if they would just stay three months. "They'll quit...
...expect the department to commit in some real way to improving communication among Faculty, administrators and students," Kim said
...Mobutu into a face-to-face meeting with Kabila to arrange a "soft landing," allowing the President to retire on grounds of ill health. Richardson carried a letter along those lines from Clinton. The special envoy was also trying to persuade Kabila that he should accept a cease-fire, commit himself to early elections and open the way for aid agencies to help feed and evacuate tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees who fled the fighting only to starve in the Zairean jungle. Both men disliked the terms and played coy over formal negotiations...
...Knowles happens to be a reasonable man. He has declined to commit some of the capital campaign money earmarked for 40 new professorships to tenure professors in ethnic studies. However, he has approved four visiting professorships in ethnic studies, which are awarded by the FAS ethnic studies committee...