Word: jointness
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...children of its 100,000 employees. There is even a public school accommodating 150 students for grades K-3 that is just for children of NationsBank's employees in Jacksonville, Fla., says Nancy Poe, a vice president in the bank's personnel department. The school is a joint project of the company and the Duval County school system. "The school is an extension of our day-care program," says Poe. "Parents have the comfort of knowing that they can visit their children in the school, which is right near their office...
Government officials complied. On top of the usual assortment of incentives, worth more than $80 million, they agreed to form a joint educational venture, a sort of UPS University, that will allow students to attend classes offered by the University of Louisville, Jefferson Community College and Kentucky Tech-Jefferson Campus. Students enrolled in what has been dubbed the Metropolitan Scholars Program will be able to earn technical certifications and two-year or four-year degrees...
Like many young parents, John and Janine Morreale were willing to stretch their finances to get their child, three-year-old Johnny, into preschool. Both worked full time--John in maintenance, Janine as a teacher--but their joint income was not enough to foot the $6,000 bill, equal to the yearly rent of their apartment. "We were living paycheck to paycheck, and we even had to start borrowing from my mother-in-law," recalls Janine. "It just didn't make any sense...
...Monckton, her brother Charles Spencer and the Duchess of York all made statements bemoaning that anyone would accuse the Princess of wrongdoing now that she's dead. "Has Charles no shame?" wonders another royal biographer, Anthony Holden. Charles and Camilla were driven to the unprecedented move of issuing a joint statement insisting that they had not cooperated with Junor nor asked their friends...
Berkowitz--who accepted a one-year extension of his current appointment last spring--is in the midst of appealing the decision through Rudenstine's office. He is still awaiting an answer from the Joint Committee on Appointments on a letter he wrote last May requesting a review of his case...