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...choosing a law school, panelists said student should look at placement after graduation. Graduates of regional and local law schools tend find placements for students that are within that region, according to Curll. she added that this is less of a problem with national schools...
...private companies that are moving aggressively into the field, it dangles the possibility of big profits and high-flying stock prices. Privatization has had some notable successes. In some states it has increased the number of welfare recipients going to work by operating well-managed training and job-placement programs. In others it has raised child-support collections by upgrading computer systems and improving procedures for garnisheeing the wages of absent fathers. But in many other jurisdictions, private welfare providers have been failing on the job or having their contracts canceled, or are facing such charges as abusing program clients...
...With a placement of 1.85 meters (6'00"75) in the high jump, Gyorffy garnered third place in the nation and All-American honors...
...unit project called C.J. Peete, residents have been recruited to do maintenance and help with security and job placement. "It used to be nobody paid attention to what we were saying," says Augusta Kerry, head of C.J. Peete's resident council. "Now they listen, and we do things together...
...strange act of mercy, the Financial Times doesn't tell you that the United States placed second to last in the advanced mathematics division of the exam. American students taking pre-calculus, calculus or Advanced Placement calculus scored 59 points below the international average, and only 6 points above Austria, the lowest scoring nation in the advanced division. William H. Schmidt, an educational statistician quoted in the New York Times gets the message across: "Even the very small percentage of students taking Advanced Placement courses are not among the world's best...