1.   A recent AARP survey found that more than half of companies do not have recruiting or retention programs aimed at older workers.

2.   Despite criticism of the retention program, Marr of the state development corporation said the aid programs were good.

3.   If issues of pay equity are not resolved, motivational and retention programs will not motivate or retain anyone.

4.   In Philadelphia, several Muslim clients complained last year when a church-run job retention program financed by the state required them to read from the Bible.

5.   It has devised a pilot retention program aimed at keeping its cockpits filled in the future.

6.   Similarly, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets accounting rules, leaves it up to individual accounting firms to handle their own record retention programs.

7.   The retention program is also intended to induce small companies that leave Lower Manhattan at least to remain in New York City.