retention

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The £360m programme is designed to support fishing and seafood businesses and help revitalise coastal communities by improving skills and workforce retention.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

This leads to excess salt and water retention, raising blood pressure and making it difficult to control.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Those include questions about the direction of the business, rollover, retention and expansion plans.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Surfshark, also headquartered in Amsterdam, benefits from strong privacy protections and no mandatory data retention laws.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

Larger ones tended to have more powerful chiefs, more ranks of chiefly lineages, greater distinctions between chiefs and commoners, more retention of tribute by the chiefs, more layers of bureaucrats, and grander public architecture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond