Ian Watson, Lancashire County Council's head of cultural services, said the council "would be happy" to consider "options for retaining this valuable part of Lancashire's history".

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Boston Consulting Group says it focuses heavily on recruiting and retaining women, offering part-time options, mentoring and professional development programs.

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The GAO surveyed 22 state-run programs that cover private- and public-sector workplaces and found that the agencies had troubling staffing and retaining inspectors, in part because of low salaries.

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In Cornwall, retaining the Penzance to London sleeper was also part of the proposed new franchise.

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If an organism can successfully subcontract part of the business of metabolism to another while retaining the rest itself, rather than offloading the whole lot as most viruses do, then there are no rules to stop it happening.

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Then came the European Financial Stability Facility, but it turns out to be too puny to halt the bond vigilantes' rampage through the euro zone, and anyhow rests in part on France's waning ability to join Germany as a guarantor by retaining its triple-A credit rating.

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