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He has since retired from the public defender’s office, but continues to practice law and represents defendants affected by the snitch scandal.
From Los Angeles Times
Sheffield Council's director of public health Greg Fell, who is president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, has become a CBE.
From BBC
Investors aren’t always happy when a company sells stock to the public because it increases the number of shares outstanding, which in turn reduces the percentage of the company that current shareholders own.
From MarketWatch
He throws at reporters so much fluff—personal asides, fulminations about adversaries real and imagined, commentary on culture and self-congratulation—that the press and public often ignore important things.
A worker’s interest in speaking on a matter of public concern is supposed to be weighed against the state’s interest in undisrupted services.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
