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...company targeting the local universities and colleges. According to their website, the name UNICCO was originally intended as an acronym for UNIversity Cleaning Company. The website encourages their potential customers to move to outsourcing as a way to focus on “core business” and achieve maximum cost-effectiveness...
...When Jenkins arrived at his one-day general court-martial more than seven weeks later, he had won a pretrial agreement in which he would plead guilty only to desertion and aiding the enemy (for the time he spent teaching English). In exchange, his penalty would be a maximum 30 days' confinement, a demotion to private, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge. Military-law experts assume Jenkins won this relatively lenient treatment in exchange for providing intelligence about North Korean spy programs. Neither Jenkins nor the U.S. government will comment on any such discussions...
...nothing had done the trick. On this day (to help protect his patent, Grier won't say exactly when it was), they tried a $5 piece of plastic as a joke. "It should not have worked," Grier says. Yet it did - where earlier optical traps could capture a maximum of two substances, this cheap plastic one split the laser beam into 16 parts which, when properly harnessed, gave them the potential to trap 16 separate substances. It was the breakthrough they had been after for years. "We were stunned,'' Grier recalls...
...catalyst that drives a series of wicked betrayals and abandonment as the four characters become deeply connected. The lovers occupy a universe where passion reigns over reason and disorder is inevitable; each greedily takes what he or she momentarily desires while delivering perfectly placed words intended to cause maximum hurt to another as they all struggle to understand what it means to love...
...taxpayers a whopping $4.5 billion every year. That’s more than enough to cover the $300 million Republicans are so eager to cut from next year’s Pell Grants. And while they’re at it, Congress should use that windfall to raise the maximum Pell Grant up from the measly $4050 where it’s stagnated now for years. After adjusting for inflation, that’s $500 less than the maximum Pell Grant...