The X-Man notes that half of all Americans who enter college never finish, that almost sixty per cent of students who enroll in two-year colleges need developmental (that is, remedial) courses, and that less than thirty per cent of faculty in American colleges are tenure-track.

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Although some developmental kinks still need to be worked out, the inclusion of such technology in the Japanese bid is surely the latest phase of a traditional decision-making process that involves several cycles (and often years) of understanding, review, and comment by managers at various levels.

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They need help at the early stages from subsidized sources of finance that care about the developmental and environmental benefits of their work.

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