Word: retainers
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...system that is hemorrhaging students.” Last week, the Finance Committee voted to put the school system’s budget before the full City Council for a vote, but only after the committee conducted a four-hour debate on the system’s inability to retain students. Over the last two years, Cambridge schools have lost 755 students. This year, there are roughly 6,000 students enrolled in the district. Schuster’s and Nolan’s motion ultimately passed on a 4-3 vote. Nolan said the roundtable was necessary because the issue...
Although we've become thoroughly used to e-tickets, many of us remain wary of checking in for a flight online, and still end up arriving at the airport a couple of hours before a scheduled departure. To ease the tedium of waiting (and retain the loyalty of sophisticated passengers), airlines have taken unprecedented pains over their airport lounges in recent years. Not so long ago, first-class and business-class travelers were shown [an error occurred while processing this directive] to drab rooms with nothing but a self-serve bar and rack of newspapers to recommend them. These days...
...Throttlebottom does say to Wintergreen, in a neat presentiment of Maureen Dowd, "You can be the President and I'll go back to Vice.") But the pertinence of the show's disdain for the motives of the President, the Congress and the press carried a wallop then, and retain a sting today...
...that the development was necessary for the Arboretum’s growth and that Weld Hill was one of the few sites they could use for it. “The Arboretum needs to create modern research laboratories, which we do not have, if it’s to retain its scientific reputation,” he said. “This is the only parcel that the Arboretum owns that is not basically parkland.” Cook mentioned the concessions that the Arboretum has agreed to make to the neighborhood in the past two years of negotiation over...
Some councillors said that the School Committee’s inability to retain students led to reluctance on the part of the city to approve the school district’s budget...