Those placements" -- in Playboy and FHM -- "were made by the athletes and their representatives, and neither we nor their national governing bodies had anything to do with it".
Those placements have rankled officials of Children's Services, who say they have neither the money nor the facilities to take in children who would normally be headed to secure detention in an upstate institution.
Those placements severely test her department, as case workers, who are supposed to visit their assigned children once a month, often cut their visits short because they are so busy.
The company's rent payments rose by 2.5% this year, at a time when local authorities – its main customers – have cut their social care spending by around 10%, reducing both the number of placements and the amount they will pay for those placements.
"When Scandal Is Outsourced," by Michael Powell (Gotham column, Aug. 9), about the nonprofit organization Seedco, which operates some of New York City's Workforce1 career centers, did not include a critically important fact: All of its job placement numbers are audited by an independent outside company, and no payments are made to Seedco for those placements until the outside company verifies them.
In some cases, those placements have been for specialized, high-income jobs -- as in the financial services sector, where companies like New York Life and Salomon Brothers Asset Management have begun hiring more salespeople over 50, in part because their age may give them an edge in a world where two-thirds of the money in the stock market is controlled by managers over 50.
Developers creating listings for standardized placements in their games and advertisers bid for those placements.
Hence, fewer runs are needed to guarantee that those placements are conveniently observed.
MediaSpike is supposed to take most of the work out of those placements.
"For both those placements, I wrote off to about 50 companies and 50 universities around the world," she says.
