Word: placement
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...Truffaut's Jules and Jim, still believes that French directors go "for the truth of a scene. This movie is my first statement, and I wanted a French film sense." That means not rushing or spoon-feeding the audience, not forcing easy moral judgments through camera effects or the placement of actors in the frame. This is not, in Foster's words, "a $20 million nightmare"; her directorial hand does not conceal a joy buzzer. She caresses each movie moment as if it were privileged...
Private Investing or Placement: the bank sells corporate equity or debt on a non-public basis to large, market-aware, sophisticated investors. The bank's client will usually be a private company that needs to raise capital. The bank often just advises and obtains financing at most favourable terms, but its function may include evaluating the capital requirements of its client, analysing the private market, establishing the structure and prices of offerings, targetting potential investors and negotiating transactions to get the best price...
...company usually has a certain number of jobs to be filled in the definite salary brackets. An OCS counselor can tell you the average starting salary for such a position. You may also wish to look over the Salary Survey, published by the College Placement Council, or to look in the U.S. government publications entitled The Occupational Outlook for College Graduates. Both are in the OCS library...
Every year, Harvard shells out thousands of dollars to hire an army of proctors to watch us take tests. In September, dozens of upperclassmen are signed on to monitor first-year placement tests. In January and May, hordes of graduate students, extension school students and non-affiliates invade the Yard to watch all 6500 undergrads sweat through final exams...
...have three on the very front burner," Meyer says. "One in our private placement area and two in the public area that we're pursuing with vigor...