The Empire still retains far more resources and personnel than the Foundation and Riose is willing to use that advantage to its fullest.

A serious short-term problem was retaining personnel, particularly at Los Alamos where many scientists and technicians were eager to return to civilian pursuits.

We rely upon the support of the families to retain personnel within the forces.

However despite sometimes intensive efforts to retain personnel, reenlistment rates were very low.

It must offer its educators competitive salaries that will attract and retain qualified personnel.

At the same time, the Navy is not retaining nearly enough enlisted personnel, particularly those with highly technical skills.

But until today this authority was used only to retain personnel involved in the operation.

Under its previous, more limited authority to retain personnel, the Army had been keeping about 1,500 people a month who might have ordinarily left the service.

Since most EMS teams are small and suffer high turnover, retaining qualified personnel can be difficult.

Although it is more expensive to hire, train and retain such personnel, they have a clear advantage in terms of their flexibility.