Sentences with phrase «[board chairs»

Sitting in a chair for most of their waking hours often translates into carrying around more weight than is good for a person, physiologically or esthetically speaking.

In 2013, Diamonte was appointed by President Barack Obama and currently serves as chair of the advisory committee for Pension Benefit Guaranty.

After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

A father and son view the electric chair nicknamed «Old Sparky» on display at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas 07 December 2002.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee and will retire at the end of his term in 2018, remarked that President Donald Trump would expend less energy undoing the CFPB's actions if he removed Cordray.

To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

In many ways, musical chairs is the perfect metaphor for building a new business, or one's career.

Yet, while Shelley Hwang, chief of breast surgery at Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research at Duke University's Department of Surgery, agrees in principle, she also has concerns about all the new diagnostic potential that will come with precision medicine.

Moving your body can connect you to creative thoughts in ways that don't happen when you watch television or sit in a chair.

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

The assumption now is for three increases next year; a «very tiny» shift, said Fed chair Janet Yellen.

Barbara Stymiest, who became a director in 2007, will now chair the board.

Watching the last remnants of any energy seeping slowly out of these unwitting captives sitting sadly in their chairs is truly depressing.

Gore also chairs the UNF's Global Entrepreneurs Council and previously served as the first ever EIR for the UNF as well as vice president of global partnerships.

Look, it's fairly easy to dismiss The Chairless Chair — a wearable exoskeleton developed by Swiss company Noonee that allows you to sit wherever — as a ridiculous piece of technology.

A robot designed by researchers at Nanyang Technological University assembles an Ikea chair in 20 minutes.

A chill box with artificial light, corporate - mandated chairs with no ergonomic benefits and a lack of support features for using a computer all day will stack up.

From a swivel chair in one of the many identical 10 - by - 10 conference rooms at Lyft's labyrinthine offices, Zimmer declined to comment specifically on the rumors Lyft is entering merger and acquisition territory.

Third, are all the desks and chairs set up in an ergonomic fashion so that staff members don't suffer neck, back and eye strain?

said no one ever in response to the damp Egyptian cotton bath wrap hanging on the back of your chair.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has an empty chair in all his meetings.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley received a copy of Rice's memo on June 16, 2017, according to records obtained by Business Insider on Thursday.

He punched the door, which struck Khan's chair, and then he threatened her and kicked her in the right leg, according to the statement by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

There are half - unwrapped office chairs all over the place, but Smith's attention drifts over to a lattice of pipes dangling from the ceiling — an incomplete high - tech lighting system that uses something called «visual magnetics.»

The news was particularly surprising, considering Klein herself was a chair of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) that last year supported an anti-fraud intitiative backed by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), «the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.»

Azim Premji, who chairs Indian technology behemoth Wipro, spoke about embracing change on «Managing Asia» in 2010.

Carla Harris, chair of the National Women's Business Council, suggests that women of color may have been more likely to have been laid off during the beginning of the great recession, and so may have been more likely to need entrepreneurship as an alternative way to make a living.

The list of Fed chair candidates has been whittled down, and over the past week two frontrunners have emerged: Fed governor Jerome Powell and Stanford economist John Taylor.

A simple investment in ergonomic furniture, from chairs and desks to keyboards and monitor stands, can result in far fewer small workplace injuries, like sprains and strains.

It's everywhere, including a pink ceiling in the entryway, pink chairs, pink lockers to store personal belongings, a pink London - style phone booth where people can make calls away from the often noisy open floor plan and even rosé wine on tap.

He also has said he has not ruled out renominating current Fed Chair Janet Yellen, whose term expires in February.

«The current state of affairs is a free - for - all,» said Angela McArthur, who directs the body donation program at the University of Minnesota Medical School and formerly chaired her state's anatomical donation commission.

And as Inc. points out, a comfortable chair can also promote creativity and bolster your professionalism.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The Chairless Chair supports up to 220 pounds in each leg and locks into place when its user wants to sit.

The Financial Post recently cited unnamed sources saying the board is considering appointing Barbara Stymiest, former COO at Royal Bank of Canada, as an independent chair to replace the duo.

-- Murray Edwards, chair, Canadian Natural Resources Limited.

In addition to technical fields — Total's top priority — some of the 26 professorial and research chairs it endows are dedicated to more directly social issues.

Choosing a well - made, ergonomic chair can help prevent back, neck and shoulder pain.

Get on your feet and out of your chair whenever possible.

The chair, in service from 1924 through 1964, was used to execute 361 prisoners.

A feature highlighted is the ability to wave your hand in front of a smoke detector that has signaled an alarm to make it turn off; no climbing up on ladders or chairs or swinging towels required.

Lee - Chin now chairs AIC, along with Portland Holdings Inc., a private investment company that owns an array of other businesses in media, telecommunications, health care, tourism and finance.

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Cushions for back support, wrist rests and any number of ergonomic products (chairs, keyboards, mice) are huge helps in the office.

Especially if you work an office job, you'll be sitting in the same chair day in and day out, so you want it to be comfortable and supportive.

Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican who chairs the committee, told Comey that revelations about the investigation had placed a «big gray cloud» over people trying to lead the country.

One day as the morning sun pours through the windows of a conference room at headquarters, Smith leans back in an office chair and swivels the empty one to his right with a free hand as he talks.

You know, that game where a group of kids is circling a cluster of chairs, and everyone has to find a seat when the music abruptly stops.

It is my firm belief that whoever may succeed my father as Chair at each company should be someone who is not a Trustee of my father's trust or otherwise intertwined in Redstone family matters, but rather a leader with an independent voice.