Word: retainers
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...record of candidate Clinton may be controversial, but in her six short years New York Democratic Senator Clinton, 58, has earned respect from both parties. Assigned to the Armed Services Committee, she has mastered issues like how to retain Guard and Reserve troops, pushed through legislation educating military families on insurance scams and funded measures to help supply flu vaccine. She has also leveraged her national clout to spotlight important terrorism issues with narrow followings--like the vulnerability of nuclear plants...
...down the respondents - young, old, ethnic minorities, Londoners, non-Christians, local opinion leaders, readers of the Sun tabloid, readers of the "quality" dailies - no more than 25% of any group wants to dump the royals. Even after a decade of tumult for the Windsors, 68% of Britons want to retain them. "That's astonishing," says Sunder Katwala, head of the Fabian Society, a think tank affiliated with the Labour Party. "It represents an absolute failure for British republicanism," to which he is instinctively sympathetic. In fact, there's no real debate at all on the future of the monarchy...
...restructuring efforts to improve advising encountered criticism from students and professors in February when longstanding administrator Deborah Foster was told that her post would be subsumed by the new advising office. Gross later stated that Foster would retain her academic duties...
...Myrhum ’05, and with musical direction by Emily Senturia, the operetta is a delightful update of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best. It is not so much that they are faithful to the nearly 120-year-old material, as it is that they retain the spirit of the original writing and music without making it too stiff or old-fashioned...
...home educators are protesting parts of the state government's proposed new Education Act, under which they'll be required to register with authorities from next year. For now, Victoria remains the only place in Australia where no such obligation exists. It's a freedom they'll fight to retain, say prominent homeschoolers, who argue parents have a right to educate their children without interference from the state...