Word: placings
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...earlier version of the Dec. 3 news article "FAS, Four Other University Schools Offer Retirement Plan for Faculty Members" incorrectly stated that Princeton had put in place an early retirement plan for its faculty. In fact, Princeton's early retirement package applied only to staff...
...making sure this institution got through what we now call the ‘Great Recession,’” Light said in an interview yesterday afternoon of the past year’s fiscal challenges. “We’re at the right place to bring in a new dean who will execute whatever set of choices we make...
...definitely used a slower pace; I wasn’t trying to overpower the ball because the courts here were really hot,” she said. “I tried more to place the ball...
...sagging because of the oxymoronic perception that he is spending too much and doing too little to ease the economic crisis. It is a real problem he faces - and, to some extent, has brought upon himself by focusing so much attention on health care reform - but its proper place is in another speech. Given the feeling of abandonment that many of the soldiers I've spoken with during the past few years have, a more appropriate message to the American people might have been: I know you're hurting, but we're at war. We're trying to stabilize...
China is moving to take back one of its own - even if it is legend. Mulan is the Middle Kingdom's gender-bending heroine, its Joan of Arc. The character from folktale is a daughter who disguises herself as a male soldier to take her father's place in the conscription army. The problem for the Chinese is that, since 1998, the definitive version of the story has been Disney...