Word: retainers
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Speculation is rife in France that the board of directors at scandal-rocked Société Générale decided to retain embattled CEO Daniel Bouton only to allow him to do the one thing he's spent a decade avoiding: preparing the bank for acquisition by a hostile rival...
...agents of democracy in Nepal, stifled by the objections of reactionary, status-quo forces, while many in the Congress, let alone in factions aligned still to the ancien régime of the monarchy, doubt the radical guerrillas' commitment to any political scenario where they may not retain complete control. Despite a compromise thrashed out at the end of last year, which set elections for this April, observers expect conflict to be inevitable. "What more must we give the Maoists?" asks R.S. Mahat, Nepal's Finance Minister and a Congress Party member. "Their strategy is simply to create crisis. They...
...other property—donated by George L. Paine, also for the purpose of faculty vacations—came with a clause allowing the University to sell it after 15 years if the property had “become impractical to retain.” Paine’s will permitted profits from the sale to be used for “the general purposes of the University...
...dynamic that it ultimately doesn't matter whether he is using it in the service of fact or fiction. De Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit, who spurned "the slavery of some dreary job" and "the frivolous and treacherous world" of conventionality. The book had almost drowned in obscurity...
Scientific studies show that listening to classical music while working helps you concentrate and retain information. Fuck that. FM offers this study mix to get you into the finals groove...