Word: retainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...junta that rules the country unilaterally decreed changes in place names, including Myanmar for Burma and Yangon for the former capital Rangoon. The U.S. State Department has not recognized these changes. TIME has chosen to retain the name Burma...
...tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex. And in spite of GossipGeek’s arbitrary dictums on whose blurry cellphone photos and dubious dining hall sightings are newsworthy, some people retain more celebrity status than others. So what do they have that I don?...
...results from a chain of events. When the country suffered an overproduction of milk in 2006, the government ordered about 1,000 tons of raw milk poured down the drain and dairy cows slaughtered to prop up prices and defend local milk farmers. Dairy prices were then managed to retain their advantage to imported milk and butter, whose prices were inflated by tariffs. (To protect domestic butter, the tax on imported butter went up twice last year. There is a nearly 30% tariff on butter imports...
...said physics professor David A. Weitz, who is co-directing the BASF Advanced Research Initiative. “The industry is a wonderful place to find and work on more problems that could make a difference for humanity.” Weitz said that Harvard faculty will retain the right to distribute and publish research conducted during the five years, and BASF will have the opportunity to take the findings to a commercial level. Jens Rieger, a researcher at BASF who will be co-directing the initiative with Weitz, cited the collaborative nature of this university-industry relationship...
...owns Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s—two of the Medical School’s four major hospitals—Pieper said that the organization would continue to pursue a substantial amount of research and education with the Medical School. The Medical School will retain and operate certain education-oriented programs that had been part of HMI, Pieper added. Approximately 60 HMI employees will now work for Partners, according to a letter sent to HMI employees by Partners President James J. Mongan. And interim HMI chief Andrew A. Jeon will remain president and chief executive...