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With the end of mandatory retirement, there is a threat that FAS will come to resemble a useless geriatric ward. Retirement incentives, wielded appropriately, offer a promising solution to this problem. We hope that FAS will consider the interests of the students paramount to their charitable instincts and will encourage those past their prime to make room for fresh blood...
Rutley says the Air Force ROTC usually tries to assuage student concerns, while keeping paramount the military's need for trained professionals...
...shroud of mysticism, the Greek physicians replaced it with the thesis that the causes and cures of every disease are not only quite natural but also discoverable through the careful study of each patient. Thus curiosity, keenness of observation and the value of scrupulous record keeping became paramount priorities in the new philosophy of care. And as knowledge grew and was shared within the guild, the experience of a single physician became the experience...
...healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected its forests...
Even though this sharp turn toward free enterprise, seven months after the death of paramount reformer Deng Xiaoping, had been rumored for weeks, it was still greeted with wonder. "It's breathtaking," said Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former U.S. diplomat. "Nothing on that scale has ever been attempted." Others saw the change as a risky move. "Jiang is doing what Deng did not dare do," says a Chinese political analyst in Beijing. "He's putting the bankrupt state sector on the block even at the risk of social instability...