Sentences with phrase «as staffers»

Text messages came in from the shelter as staffers and volunteers were setting up offsite for the evening's event and word spread that not one, but two, and then three special - needs cats were adopted!

That's not a bad thing, as staffers usually have more time to talk than elected officials.

It was typically warm in Key Largo last August as staffers prepared to cruise out to Aquarius aboard the George F. Bond, NOAA's 46 - foot research boat that's named for the father of Sealab.

New City Library Staff Association president Karen Vetrano, as well as staffers Mary Phillips and Nancy Moskowitz, had nothing but praise and gratitude for newly hired interim director Mitch Freedman.

The campaign was also a remarkable site of technical innovation, as staffers and volunteers modified existing technologies to meet their needs and built entirely new tools, including an early social networking application that enabled supporters to find one another and thus coordinate their electoral efforts.

In fact, a great many have no significant professional experience except as staffers for the City Council.

However, worker advocates groups are fighting the proposed rule by arguing that it could allow businesses to keep employees» tips as long as the staffers earn the base minimum wage.

As staffers pitched their corporate junk, they were invited to select a few replacement items with the new logo in exchange.

Owners should also look for ways to make the atmosphere more fun even as staffers are working harder, Basso says.

Nonetheless the work environment of today for many employees takes on a different dynamic, as staffers might accomplish many business functions from the comfort of a neighborhood coffee shop or anywhere that's connected to the Internet.

Photographs posted on Twitter subsequently showed that one of the group was Grant Dingwall, a former president of the Carleton campus Conservatives, who has worked as a staffer for federal and provincial Tories.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

As the staffer said, the WCC does speak to the churches, often in disturbing ways.

Quilligan, herself a mother of two, left her career as a staffer on Capitol Hill to become a postpartum doula after her own experience with postpartum anxiety.

Very few people have ever used «cool» and «redistricting» in the same headline, but longtime readers will know that I'm a bit of a redistricting nerd — my first substantive political experience was as staffer in the Texas Legislature during a 1992 redistricting special session, and I've never quite recovered from walking into my first (absolutely literally) smoke - filled room in its waning days.

Back in that distant, unwired summer of 1991, I was a wide - eyed recent college grad starting a brand - new job as a staffer for a member of the Texas Legislature.

Very few people have ever used «cool» and «redistricting» in the same headline, but longtime readers will know that I'm a bit of a redistricting nerd — my first substantive political experience was as staffer in the Texas Legislature during a 1992 redistricting...

Back in that distant, unwired summer of 1991, I was a wide - eyed recent college grad starting a brand - new job as a staffer for a member of the...

Terry studied at Queens College and St. John's Law School, working as a staffer for a Democratic state assemblyman.

When I asked Malliotakis about that allegation today she responded with a mashup of replies, first saying that she would «stay on topic today,» then dismissing Dietl's assertion as «outrageous» and «ridiculous» and ending by saying «there's no comment on that... it's frivolous» as her staffer moved to end the press conference.

She served as an aide to former Gov. George Pataki, working on New York City issues, and also worked as a staffer to late Staten Island state Sen. John Marchi, who twice ran for mayor.

Paladino's nephew, 23 - year - old Jeff Hannon — who, as Paladino has been eager to point out over the past two days, works as a staffer for the campaign — hasn't shown up to work this week, and tells the Post that he's «obviously... very offended» by what his uncle has said.

But when they heard that Kruger actually wanted to say he's sorry for bringing shame to a conference already reeling from 1) the AEG scandal, 2) losing the majority last fall, and 3) experiencing an intra-party split that resulted in the breakaway of four rogue members who are now the IDC, certain senators made it clear they would not attend today's meeting if, as another staffer put it, a «certain person» is there.

Ali Najmi, an attorney and Democratic activist who once worked as a staffer for Mr. Weprin's brother, is likely to challenge the Democratic incumbent, sources familiar with Mr. Najmi's thinking told the Observer.

Peter - Carroll currently works as a staffer for City Council Member Stephen Levin.

She also worked as a staffer for former U.S. Rep. John McHugh, a Republican from the Watertown area.

«Your job as a staffer is to, at all cost, protect your boss and protect their career,» said one of the former staffers who tried to bring a sexual harassment claim against a legislator.

She served as an aide to Gov. George Pataki and also worked as a staffer to late Staten Island state Sen. John Marchi.

«I saw Victor and told him I don't think he's a bad kid but he needs to be more attentive to the district,» Castro said, adding that Pichardo is seen by many constituents as a staffer who reports to Bronx Senator Gustavo Rivera, who has backed Pichardo in both of his electoral contests.

«She was very interested and very sharp, as every staffer that I've ever met on the Hill has been.

As a staffer, she dealt with issues like energy and the environment, the postal service and how to manage parks and public land.

Paul plans to hold up the process with «70 - something» amendments, as a staffer put it.

And now, they have an ally in Bentley's education policy director, Emily Schultz, a protege of Michelle Rhee who recently served as a staffer at school reform outfit Mass Insight.

As a staffer in the administration of former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, Pinkston was instrumental in devising the state's successful proposal to receive money from the Obama administration's Race to the Top competitive grant program.

Spotts was working for TFA as a staffer when her now - husband was accepted into law school here.

He explains how his educational path took him to Austin, where he began volunteering at the animal shelter there, taking on various volunteer roles, then getting hired as a staffer, ultimately ascending to Deputy Chief Animal Services.

Josh West has spent the last decade doing «the writing thing» as a staffer and freelancer for games, music and comic book magazines, and now writes full time about games as the features editor for GamesTM.

Even McCalls Catering got in the cotton act, as staffer Matt Shirey serves up Maple - flavored cotton candy to guests at FOG Fair.

As a staffer at Greenpeace International, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Health Care Without Harm and Essential Action she traveled to more than 40 countries, visiting factories and dumps, training local activists and exposing the international toxic waste trade.

His sense of honour and duty as a staffer at Enfield House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House had practically compelled him to defend a drug addict who had got involved in a fight.

Tim has also worked as a staffer and freelancer in the book publishing and new media industries.

Not exact matches

In «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White» journalist Michael Wolff's report of the internal workings of the West Wing, Bannon is quoted as saying that Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian attorney in the summer of 2016 — where he was joined by top campaign staffers Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort — was «treasonous.»

The public broadcaster went out of its way on Monday to clarify that commentator Cokie Roberts has more leeway to make personal comments than the usual NPR staffer does because Roberts co-authored a newspaper column labeling Donald Trump as «one of the least - qualified candidates ever to make a serious run for the presidency.»

As I took my seat a staffer placed a sandwich beside him.

Instead, companies can now institute a chatbot — like Slack — to act as an internal communication channel, to enable staffers to find out how many holiday days they have left this year.

It remains to be seen whether Breitbart's audience will see the Fields incident and its aftermath as a reason to lose trust in the site, or whether they will simply view the departed staffers as traitors to the cause and move on.

Trump critics quickly cheered the nameless Twitter support staffer as a hero; others laughed at the incident as one more humorous episode in a year in which politics - as - usual has become the theater of the absurd.

Williams and Braswell admit that they've had opportunities that many others like them haven't; Braswell arrived as a full - time staffer at Goldman Sachs after spending five summers interning at investment banks, between semesters studying political science at Yale.

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Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.