Word: number
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...receptionist who has worked at OCS for the past two years, said that the maximum amount of hours each student can work per week has been reduced this year. Wenger worked between seven and ten hours each week last year, but she can no longer put in the same number of hours due to policy changes and new hour allocations, she said. “They did e-mail us prior to the beginning of the semester that they would probably be limiting our weekly schedule to 6 hours,” she said. Other employers are taking similar courses...
...often, pop quizzes. The device was created in 1994 by Physics Professor Eric Mazur who said that his aim in developing the device was to enhance rather than distract from the learning process. Losick, who joint-teaches the undergraduate course Molecular Cellular Biology 52, is one of a number of faculty members who have embraced the clicker as a teaching supplement. “I like seeing the class become raucous because students are discussing—going through what it took to understand the material.” Applied math concentrator Michael T. Fountaine ’12 said...
...annual tax penalty if any of their workers receive subsidies to purchase insurance through the exchanges. The tax penalty assessed to the employer would be either $400 per worker (regardless of how many workers receive subsidies) or the average cost of subsidies in a given year multiplied by the number of workers receiving them in the company - whichever is lower. (Businesses with fewer than 50 employees would be exempt from this...
...enrolling in a state exchange offered plan. If the flat dollar amount set by the Secretary of HHS for that year is $3,000, Employer A should owe $90,000. Since the maximum amount an employer must pay per year is limited to $400 multiplied by the total number of employees (for Employer A, 100), however, Employer A must pay only $40,000 (the lesser of the $40,000 maximum and the $90,000 calculated...
...certainly resisting a return of the Taliban; the parts of the country that they dominate, including sections of central and northern Afghanistan, are relatively peaceful. Also, while American and European casualties may be rising - 810 U.S. servicemen have died so far in the eight-year conflict - so has the number of Taliban deaths. Dozens of Taliban are killed every week...