Word: placement
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...many recent efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
This pedagogic sleight of hand, by the way, did not originate with religious folk. Secularists have for years been using biology instruction as a back door for inculcating their values. A sex-ed class on the proper placement of a condom is more than instruction in reproductive mechanics. It is a seminar--unacknowledged and tacit but nonetheless powerful--on permissible sexual mores...
...annuities is that they are tax-deferred products. So companies like life insurers that sell annuities within tax-deferred, retirement accounts such as 401(k)s or IRAs aren't offering added value, just added profits. Bring on the lawyers. Insurance companies "shouldn't be marketing deferred annuities for placement in retirement plans," says Michael Spencer, partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which has filed class actions against four big annuity sellers. "The consumer ends up paying substantially higher fees than if they bought a nonannuity investment...
...National Association for Law Placement, which for 25 years has been tracking the job choices of new law graduates nationwide, said that only 13.3 percent of graduates entered the government in 1998, down from 18.5 percent in 1975, according to a Washington Post article...
According to data from HLS' career placement office, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, 40 to 50 out of about 550 HLS graduates entered government work, according to the Post article. But by June, 1998 the number had declined to between seven and 10 graduates...