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...Denver's ProComp program, short for the Professional Compensation System for Teachers, was implemented in 2006 in a joint effort by the school district and the local teachers' union to recruit and retain good teachers. Since February, however, union and district leaders have been butting heads over a series of changes to ProComp proposed by superintendent Michael Bennet. The biggest sticking point is his proposal to cap base salaries while increasing performance-based bonuses. The protracted contract negotiations already led some teachers to stage sick-outs in May; others have been handing out to parents flyers denouncing the district...
...There's another crucial benefit that accrues to businesses that do good work. They will find it easier to recruit and retain great employees. Young people today - all over the world - want to work for organizations that they can feel good about. Show them that a company is applying its expertise to help the poorest, and they will repay that commitment with their own dedication...
...volunteer Army isn't without problems--conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have forced it to lower recruiting standards and increase bonuses to attract and retain soldiers--but with a conscripted force, the U.S. probably couldn't have waged the two wars now under way. Compared with morale during Vietnam, the spirit among U.S. troops serving in our war zones is relatively high--a fact that will no doubt be Kerwin's legacy...
...commander on the ground, not surprisingly, [Petraeus] wants to retain as much flexibility as possible in terms of accomplishing their goal," Obama said in a 52-min. question-and-answer session atop a mountain overlooking the Jordanian capital. "What I emphasized to him was that if I were in his shoes, I'd probably feel the same way. But my job as a candidate for President and a potential Commander in Chief extends beyond Iraq." Later in the press conference, Obama added, "The notion is that either I do exactly what my military commanders [say] or I'm ignoring their...
...sense of lives caught up in forces they cannot master. This, together with our knowledge of the dreadful cost of the battle, lends a terrible poignancy to the film. The fact that Maxwell struggled for a decade to realize the project (even mortgaging his home to retain the rights to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer- prizewinning novel, The Killer Angels, on which he based his screenplay) lends a certain critical tolerance to one's view of the film, which lingers too long over the preparations for engagement, contains perhaps too many couriers galloping up with exposition and concludes with a battle...