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The Bronx Arts Ensemble presents legendary jazz pianist VALERIE CAPERS and her quartet on February 27 at 8 pm at the Riverdale Y, 5625 Arlington Avenue in the Bronx. Full Article at All About Jazz
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ABC’s This Week: Jake Tapper. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks about “the nation’s economy, budget deficits, bailouts, taxing big banks and those AIG bonuses.” Roundtable: George Will, Al Hunt, Peggy Noonan, Ruth Marcus, John Podesta. Full Article at Firedoglake
It [the overall pay problem] is quite sizeable, and in my humble opinion as the chief, it's not an issue of a systemic pay problem, it's an issue of people not doing their jobs properly
I think it's fair and true to acknowledge that Defence does not have modern integrated human resource and pay systems for its total workforce
What we're dealing here with in terms of over-payments in the main can be attributed back to poor administration, to poor execution of delegated authority, and at times we've had inconsistent record keeping.
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