Word: recentered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still, there's little doubt that the NFL will use the new JAMA findings to bolster its stance in what has become an ugly battle over the treatment of former players. In recent years, several retired players have been denied disability compensation from the NFL for serious health conditions, including heart disease, which they attribute to their time playing football. While the NFL pays out about $1 billion in pensions and other benefits each year, it sets aside just $20 million annually to care for disabled retired players. Players' advocates say that allotment is too small to cover the injuries...
...monitored by her lawyer. “None, whatsoever.” In their communications with Campbell and her attorney, Harvard administrators did not cite specific reasons for their decision to send Campbell off campus and bar her from graduating, simply attributing her removal to “the recent shooting,” Karp said. “She’s been granted no due process, no appeal, nothing,” Karp said. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert P. Mitchell declined to comment on the case Tuesday, citing the ongoing police investigation and Harvard?...
...wake of the recent downturn, Forst’s job description expanded to include working with top administrators struggling to close budgetary gaps and slash expenses at the schools, in addition to meeting with Faust on an almost-daily basis. During interviews in the past few months, many administrators called his contributions “critical” to the budget-cutting process...
...thing, Morial says, the two sides have begun to learn much more about each other, thanks in part to joint political lobbying work in recent years between groups like the Urban League and La Raza, a major Latino advocacy organization in Washington. Black leaders now realize that they can't expect a group like Latinos, with such diverse national origins, to be as politically monolithic as blacks have historically been. Latino leaders, in turn, are less prone to underestimate (as leaders in South American and Caribbean countries too often do) the social disadvantages of being black in America...
...Tarakai, the acting head of the family. "We have been doing charity work for a long time," he says. Every night during the Muslim month of Ramadan, the vast kitchens located on the edge of the sprawling Tarakai estate feed some 50,000 people from this region. When the recent military offensive began, the Tarakais' operation started to cook food and take it to the people from Buner staying with communities in Swabi that were hosting the refugees. "When those areas became full," says Tarakai, "we set up our own camps. Today we are setting up the 11th camp." Each...