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After 45 years in the foreign service, 27 as Foreign Minister and nearly eleven in the Politburo, Gromyko is at the height of his power. Long respected and reviled as the Soviet Union's most dutiful diplomatic technician, he has become not only the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but probably its chief architect...
Once the land income comes into the account, a 1956 state law tightly restricts how it will be invested. The state treasurer is custodian of the fund, and not more than I percent of the total can be invested in any single company. Texas also can't invest in stocks that don't have a five-year dividend record, which bans venture capital and real estate. Last year the endowment for the 14-branch Texas system grew a modest $176 million, a far cry from Harvard's 42 percent increase...
...custodian of U.S. wildlife makes the feathers...
...Even custodian jobs in investment firms are, according to the EEOC, "totally segregated." Fumed Regional Director Thomas Saltonstall: "This isn't Baton Rouge in 1864. It is Boston in 1984. The situation is appalling...
...that meeting, all junior custodians working for the school department were upgraded--all 45 of them. This gave them a 3.2% increase in pay on top of the 6% raise already in their contract. Why were they upgraded? Because all of the senior custodians were upgraded. Why were they upgraded? Because one senior custodian had been recommended for upgrading by the Superintendent. But, the School Committee wanted to be "fair," so it upgraded all 14 senior custodians without a recommendation. This action gave all senior custodians a 6% increase on top of a 6% contracted pay raise. Fairness...