Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take about three years to complete. "In my wildest dreams, I never thought that I would need to study something like this," says Klotsche, who has been practicing law for 31 years. "But you have to understand the dynamics of today's global marketplace in order to find and retain new clients...
Union leaders, education experts and even some politicians agree on one thing: teachers' salaries need a big boost to attract and retain high-achieving candidates. (On average, first-year teachers make $25,000 a year.) In response to his state's teacher-testing debacle, Massachusetts senate president Thomas Birmingham last week proposed spending $100 million toward giving top college graduates a $20,000 bonus to lure them into teaching. Senator Kerry too called for "raising teacher salaries and paying [them] like professionals." Given the scope of the teaching crisis and the priority voters make of education, politicians of both parties...
...across the country routinely return children to their biological parents despite prior neglect and abuse. In April a judge in New York ruled to reunite a five-year-old boy with his mother, who had killed her other son in 1994. In Figsboro, Va., a woman was allowed to retain custody of her eight-month-old daughter despite being charged with fracturing the infant's skull; the baby was stabbed to death on Mother's Day, and the mother has now been charged with murder...
Radcliffe would retain its endowment to fundits new incarnation. But Harvard would take overRadcliffe's management and pay the differencebetween its endowment income and the money theinstitutes would need to survive. The newRadcliffe would survive from income from theendowment and donations, with fewer overheadexpenses from development...
...discussions of the last year have shown a Radcliffe willing to shed its "college" label but still trying to retain some connection to undergraduate women...