Placement

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Placement

The transfering of securities to a small group of investors.

Placement

The act or process of selling a new issue of a security to investors. Most of the time, a placement must be registered with the SEC before it can actually take place. See also: Private placement.

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In my view, the cost of an x-ray to confirm correct placement of a blindly inserted tube of any size prior to its initial use to administer formula or medications to critically ill patients is money well spent.

Confirmation of nasogastric tube placement

Inappropriate placement of mentally ill patients should be avoided whenever possible, agrees nursing home CEO Melvin Siegel, chairman of the legislative committee of the Illinois Nursing Home Administrators Association.

Placement of mentally ill individuals in nursing homes: today's legal warfare; Nursing homes shouldn't serve as mental healthcare institutions--but do they have a choice?

A review of the ERIC database found several references to reports concerning administrative placement of student service programs within the institution.

Impact of administrative placement upon programs

Complexity comes not with the number of investors or the size of the placement, says Paul Hastings' Zuppone, but with the complexity of the enterprise.

Capital plenishment: private placements are a time-honored way to raise both small and large amounts of capital. At best, they can offer quicker access to capital and far less red tape than alternative forms of financing

That was the beginning of a real upswing in product placement spending, which had mostly been in films.

PRODUCT PLACEMENT SOARS REALITY SHOWS USE HALF OF 'REAL' MERCHANDISE ON TV

Job placement officers in schools are struggling to tackle this problem.

Career counseling in Japan: Today and in the future

Drainage that occurs within 2 weeks of tube placement is usually the result of either an infection that had already existed when the tube was placed or contamination of the external auditory canal during the operation.

Post-tympanostomy tube otorrhea

The selective placement approach of counselor-centered rehabilitation counseling also can be described as more of a "directive approach," due to the necessity of assessing the person and the environment to facilitate good matches between people and jobs (Vandergoot, 1992, p.

Changing the term "job placement" to reflect choice

In essence, a private placement wrapper places investments a taxpayer might make anyway inside a life insurance contract, thus combining sought-after investment results with the tax advantages of a life insurance policy.

How to use a life insurance wrapper to minimize taxes on securities investments

It is the authors' belief that the services offered by rehabilitation counselors in the areas of disability management, job development and placement, and worker's compensation are the types of services that are vulnerable in today's economic conditions and business climate.