Word: placement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yeung's stars, including Eason Chan, Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, were spotted at ICAC offices and were thought to be among the 29 other show-biz folk brought in for questioning. It appears that record companies may have paid off TVB personnel in exchange for gaining top placement for particular artists on the network's weekly music-chart show, Jade Solid Gold, which puts singers on the inside track for TVB's annual award ceremony. Juno Mak, who appeared numerous times on Jade Solid Gold, won one TVB award this year despite a decidedly hostile reaction from the award...
...don’t believe me, look at the signs. Literally. Just last week, I saw a billboard advertising “Jesus: Coming Soon,” planted directly next to a used car dealership in a moment of marketing genius. It was practical product placement, to be sure. If Jesus were coming to Atlanta, he’d have to buy a car first to navigate the sprawl and preach to the suburban masses...
There was only one Advanced Placement, or AP, class at Washington's Cardozo Senior High School when Reginald Ballard took over as principal in 1995. But Ballard had heard that the program, which offers juniors and seniors the chance to earn college credit for their work if they score high enough on year-end exams, gave kids a leg up on getting into college. So over the past eight years, he has quadrupled the number of Cardozo students taking AP and increased the school's number of AP classes...
...advocates, feeling that it guarantees students will have a rigorous curriculum. But AP can't make up for the stark differences that exist between schools or the students who attend them. While kids in strong suburban schools have usually attained solid foundations before they enroll for advanced-placement work, youngsters in schools like Cardozo have often experienced 10 or 11 years of lackluster education by the time they get to the AP classroom. "The elementary, middle and high school pathways need to be addressed for students to have meaningful success in advanced courses," said Jeannie Oakes, an education professor...
...search of work. In 2002, German labor offices arranged for more than 3,300 skilled workers to start jobs elsewhere in Europe, almost a 9% increase over 2000. Private employment agencies report a surge in interest, too. Over the past 12 months worldwidejobs.de, one of Germany's leading online placement services, registered a 20% jump in page views on its international Internet pages. "The mood is really bad," says Therese Dietrich, head of Berlin's Europa-Job-Center. "People just want to get out." Don't expect this trend to die off anytime soon. "People's willingness to move abroad...