Typically, public employee unions cling tightly to defined-benefit pensions: only a handful of states, including Michigan and Alaska, have had much success moving non-university employees to defined-contribution plans.
In education, some fear that ill-prepared non-white university students will be unable to keep up, and simply drop out.
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Take the case of Singularity University, a non-profit educational institution located at Moffitt Field in the heart of Silicon Valley.
And yes, Tony Blair may have won a majority of seats in England but he had to rely on the votes of non-English MPs to get his university tuition fee policy through the Commons.
I'm now speaking because there has been almost 18 months since on the BBC I announced I was going and I'm venturing now after that part into a non-parliamentary area which is the University College London's Institute.
In February, University Hospital Coventry cancelled non-emergency operations and outpatient appointments due to the "significant winter pressures".
Last year the government introduced an urban insurance scheme (similar to the rural one) aimed at non-working residents, including children and university students.
According to Andy Mazzara, the director of the Institute for Non-Lethal Defence Technologies at Pennsylvania State University, prototypes of such devices use a laser to create an ionised channel of air through which an electromagnetic pulse is directed.
California State University System exempting students from non-resident fees.
The fifth- ranked and first non-Ivy school among the top earners was Colgate University located in Hamilton, N.
The report was prepared by Sustainable Prosperity, a non-partisan research and policy network based at the University of Ottawa.
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The university's licence to sponsor non-EU students was controversially revoked in August last year, leaving hundreds of students without courses.
Celera was able to work quite happily with Gerry Rubin's non-profit Drosophila Genome Project, based at the University of California, Berkeley.
We have made clear that everything is on the table, that we -- our approach, as outlined by the President in his speech at George Washington University, includes spending cuts to non-defense discretionary spending.
Prof Christopher James, an expert in neural engineering at the University of Warwick, who uses non-invasive techniques in his own research, explains that it is currently not possible to put information into a brain using just the surface of the scalp.
The Natural Capital Project, a non-profit venture led in part by scientists from Stanford University, has changed that.
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Sasha had demonstrated a serious interest in development work, studying the subject at University of Vermont and interning at a non-profit that helped rebuild schools in Sudan.
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"More than half the works in our first show were bought by non-Indians, " says Prajit Dutta, a Columbia University economics professor who runs Aicon, the largest gallery of Indian contemporary art in the U.S., with showrooms in Palo Alto, Calif.
Bersani would boost his prospects of winning over Grillo lawmakers by packing his proposed Cabinet with non-political names, said Walston, a professor at American University of Rome.
And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.
University researchers gain access to a wealth of heretofore non-public scientific data, along a nice chunk of change.
Non-conformists resented the fact that, as Holly Brewer of the University of Maryland has noted, the monarch in some ways had more sway over American Anglicans than he did over the Church of England.
University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire said it was cancelling some non-urgent operations due to increased patient demand.
The university, it found, had supported the scientists in non-disclosure, rather than helping them follow the act's procedures.
Eight years later, Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University reported that smokers do not live as long as non-smokers.
Joe Paterno has a statue for the same reason Auburn University built one for former quarterback Cam Newton (a non-graduate who attended the school for one year) -- because football (literally, the launching of a synthetic oval contraption through the air) exceeds all else.
As part of an effort to train a new cohort of local health workers and hence to improve the health delivery services for women and their families in rural communities, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the Centre for International Education at the University of Massachusetts, International Rescue Committee and seven local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) initiated the Learning for Life (LfL) programme.
To this end, in 2007 she co-founded together with Dr Georges Whitesides of Harvard University, the "Diagnostics for All" (DFA) non-profit enterprise.
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