Word: jettisoned
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...Florida prison for overstaying his visa. Says Norman Gross, a prominent Tampa Jewish leader: "You have to put the good of the school and the country ahead of [al-Arian's] tenure." A week before Christmas, Genshaft, with the backing of her trustees and Governor Jeb Bush, decided to jettison al-Arian...
Such strategies may spread swiftly as companies jettison the pensions that generations of Americans once worked for. As recently as 1992, traditional pension funds held 21% more assets than 401(k) accounts, IRAS and other defined contribution plans. Today these newer plans hold 15% more than pension funds, and the margin is expected to widen. With a growing number of retirees thus left to the tender mercies of financial markets, many are likely to turn to immediate fixed annuities as a haven they can count...
...happen with monotonous regularity. In August, there were seven major incidents, claiming 32 lives, in Guizhou alone. Labor activists estimate that for every reported death, there are perhaps three others that are never documented. Remoteness isolates local cadres from responsibility, and they know that a bad safety record could jettison their hopes of promotion. It's the rare case that comes into full light: a few weeks ago, an unusually zealous national media discovered that the deaths of 77 tin mine workers in Guangxi province had been hidden for weeks...
Last December Ericsson's top brass threw a 50th-birthday dinner for Marks at the tony Stallmastaregarden restaurant in Stockholm. While thanking his hosts and lauding their partnership, Marks launched into a bold new pitch: What Ericsson really ought to do, he said, was jettison all its mobile-phone operations. The next morning he made a formal proposal. Ten days later, Ericsson agreed to get out of the cell phone-manufacturing business. "It turns out that, increasingly, companies want not just a supplier but someone to run a part of their business for them," says Marks. "The Ericsson deal...
...likely to use birth control and thus more likely to put themselves at risk for STDs and unwanted pregnancies. What's more, the study concluded that as the number of virginity pledgers grows - roughly 2.5 million have already signed on - the practice could become too popular and teens could jettison their pledge cards like so many of yesterday's fashion fads. "Pledging works because it embeds kids in a community and makes them feel different," says author Bearman. "If they don't feel different anymore, or if they start pledging because people tell them to, it won't carry...