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Hill is Singaporean, and in 2005, after high school, he joined the Singapore Armed Forces to serve the mandatory two-year tour...
...United Nations Security Council has chosen its next five non-permanent members, to begin serving next January in the body charged with global security. What Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon, and Nigeria will accomplish in their two-year terms remains to be seen, but already clear is the dire need for systemic reform in the structure of the Security Council...
...Education officials will closely monitor students' attendance and performance rates during the two-year duration of the Paris-area program. Even if the initiative succeeds, however, officials say they still won't expand it nationally if public opinion is against it. If that happens, the government may be faced with another dilemma: responding to students' angry complaints at being denied their monthly allowances...
...recent wave of deals, such as Cisco's decision to buy Tandberg, Xerox's plan to acquire Affiliated Computer Services, Dell's pending purchase of Perot Systems and Adobe Systems Inc.'s acquisition of Omniture have given analysts and investment bankers optimism that a nearly two-year drought in M&A activity is finally over, with tech leading the way out. (See the 10 biggest tech failures of the decade...
...Murray’s success is emblematic of a fundamental problem with this recruitment system, some critics say. The two-year lag between when firms extend job offers and when employees begin their first year forces firms to predict associate demand far in advance of the start date and leads to inaccurate predictions of hiring needs...