Word: placement
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...been a backlash from some less enlightened employers, sources say. "Because of a greater awareness of the law, sometimes companies are afraid to hire people with a disability. They fear that they'll be sued if that person is fired for any reason," says Patricia Veal, a human-resources placement specialist with the North Carolina division of vocational-rehabilitation services in Greensboro...
...Core program has seen the addition of a Quantitative Reasoning requirement and the end of the Advanced Placement exam exemption for Science A and B courses, while the Committee on Undergraduate Education has also raised the bar for the foreign language requirement...
Duehay says the city has already taken steps to help those who were cut off before they could find jobs, including efforts at housing, job placement and formation of support groups for those living in poverty...
Bolden says she did not participate in any of the job placement and training programs offered by the DTA in Springfield because she was focused on getting back to Cambridge, where her family and friends live...
Gene therapy, simply defined, is the placement of beneficial genes into the cells of patients. By introducing the gene and consequently the protein it produces, says Inder Verma, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., "you either eliminate the defect, ameliorate the defect, slow down the progression of the disease or in some way interfere with the disease...