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...many of which involved the sexual assault of his victims. According to Jennifer Vargen, a spokeswoman for State Fund, where Thomas worked from 1989 up until his arrest, they were unaware of his criminal history. Back when Thomas was hired, Vargen says, mandatory criminal-background checks weren't in effect (they were instituted for new employees in the mid-1990s). Now, in light of the case against Thomas, she says the human resources department is reevaluating whether to conduct criminal-background checks for employees hired before the mandatory practice went into effect...
...Office of Investigations [in San Diego]. "Drug trafficking organizations don't want to lose money, narcotics, houses and the same goes for tunnels - and if they spent a year a digging a tunnel and then to loose that asset so quickly, that has to have some crippling setback effect...
...believes that concerns over difficulty also lead people to overlook the lighthearted element in his work, which frequently incorporates parody, quotes, and pop culture for a collage-like effect. “I think I’m a rather funny person,” he says. “I like my poems to include as many things in them as possible. Humor, tragedy, love, time, all the things that are traditional in poetry—I like having them happening all at once...
...gains in achievement compared to past years rather than relying on the absolute benchmarks currently in use. “It is not just about rules or threatening districts with sanctions for poor performance: it’s about creating opportunities for our [ideal] education principles to go into effect,” Ferguson said. While Cambridge Public School District officials declined to comment specifically on the NAEP results, since staffers had not yet had a chance to review the report, Justin T. Martin, a spokesman for the school district, said he was optimistic about the district?...
...make it hard for lawmakers to make the wisest policy choices. Though advocates say that fixing the health system promises big savings over the long haul, it will take some big, up-front investments - in technology and preventive care, for instance - whose benefits will not begin to take effect for years. And most of the savings will accrue not to the Federal Government - whose direct costs for health care are felt largely through the Medicare and Medicaid programs - but to the economy writ large, where health care now accounts for about 17% of all spending, more than double its percentage...