Word: retainers
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From her interviews with the grown children of the Kindertransport, British dramatist Diane Samuels has written an affecting drama about a girl whose past was severed as though cut by a knife. "England is quite tolerant in many ways," Samuels notes, "but when aliens try to retain their differences, there is not much tolerance." Her play, now in New York City after its premiere at London's Soho Theatre Company, takes place in an attic, where a middle-age woman sorting through her belongings reluctantly confronts who she had once been. As a nine-year-old named Eva Schlesinger...
When Gabay was elected president of the council in the fall, beating Davis, Melissa Garza '94, and Mark D. McKay '94, many members thought the council would retain its "old boy' image...
Human-rights organizations, however, are leaning hard on Clinton to be tough. They point to China's continued export of goods made with prison labor: under Clinton's own Executive Order, Beijing must stop that to retain MFN. Harry Wu, a former Chinese political prisoner, showed Congress tapes of prisoners at forced labor that he had secretly filmed on a five-week trip this year. Says Wu: "Fifty percent of Chinese rubber products come from chemical factories that employ forced labor." Human Rights Watch/Asia says latex gloves used by doctors were exported as recently as last January only after being...
...firm insisted it would. In the wake of political infighting over who should get the lucrative contract, it went to an outsider, Aircraft Service International of Miami, which has had to race to fathom the system in a few months. Then too the eagerness of Denver's leaders to retain control and ensure minority participation in all phases of construction led them to put city officials in command, overseeing hundreds of contracts, rather than hand off the duties to a general contractor, who might have provided tighter management. Notes an insider: "It was raw greed. Everyone wanted a piece...
Schmid added that when Hughes Hallett returns,her responsibilities will be similar to those shehad before she left. "She will retain the hiringresponsibilities for Math Ar," Schmid said. "Myexpectation is that Math Ar will continue and Debwill continue to run it without interference. Ibelieve that is the expectation of everyone in thedepartment. Nor do I believe that anything to thecontrary has ever been communicated...