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...move’s immediate impetus, however, has more to do with HCL’s ongoing budget crunch, according to Brainard. The elimination of four full-time positions at Kummel—to go into effect June 30, 2005—will help balance the Library’s budget for Fiscal Year...
...Union that's in disarray over everything from the Stability and Growth Pact to the proposed new constitution. But others fear that the Big Three are getting together to dictate terms to the rest of Europe. The trio could be the engine of a newly invigorated Europe - or the impetus for a slow-motion car wreck. It certainly won't hurt the top men themselves, each of whom has an anchor chained to his domestic poll ratings, to be seen throwing their weight around in the E.U. Blair has been badly damaged by the failure to find weapons of mass...
Gross cited the curricular review as the impetus behind the reshuffling...
...said part of the impetus for the rally was a feeling that the debate over abortion had become nothing more than a feud of propaganda...
...Another impetus for the board to explore alternative tests is the persistence of gaps in SAT scores between racial and ethnic groups. Here, too, the Rainbow Project shows some promise. On the practical-intelligence portions of the test (the part in which students persuade friends to haul the mattress), there were no differences in scores between groups. On the creative portions, the differences were considerably smaller than they are on the SAT. And in some sections, groups that traditionally fare poorly on standardized tests thrived. Native Americans did especially well on the oral part...