Sentences with phrase «department heads take»

Principal Patrick McGillicuddy asked Eskolta to help department heads take a deeper look, and in 2013, the Eskolta team evaluated nearly 250 outcomes from a sample of classes in four disciplines to see which academic skills and abilities were measured by each individual standard.

Not exact matches

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

But the senior department head of an American company, who declined to be identified, added that it would be «stupid» to sell the flat to take short - term profits because prices would continue to rise in the future.

«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

Other changes have been in the works for months, including the departure soon of Glenn Butt, executive vice-president of automotive whose functions overseeing the auto department had been taken over by the company's head of marketing.

The Labor Department's proposal now heads to the White House Office of Management and Budget for a review that could take three months or longer.

James Smith, head of workplace strategy and business development at Morningstar, says many broker - dealers are taking a proactive approach to measuring the rule's impact on their 401 (k) advisory business, and not waiting for courts to determine the Labor Department rule's fate.

Or that the head of the Department of Commerce would take a call from Jim McNerney, the former CEO of Boeing?

He divides his time between Smolensk and Moscow, and his responsibility as head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate frequently takes him abroad.

Michael Gove, Sir Michael Wilshaw (head of Ofsted), the Department of Health, Public Health England, Jamie Oliver, charitable organisations and representatives from all the major school food providers — from private industry to local authority caterers — have agreed to do their bit to increase take - up and create a truly first class school food service.

He said when he was asked to take the job as head of the Department of Agriculture, the first thing President Obama asked him to do was to improve the country's school meal program.

The BCDL study took notes from another research by the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Former head of the Political Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has described as «irresponsible» the stance taking by the Electoral Commission on the call for new voters register.

The head of the city's Department of Investigation, who served as finance chairman of Mayor de Blasio's 2013 campaign, came under pressure Monday to take legal action against City Hall.

With the capital city poised to receive $ 500,000 less in additional state aid, and managing the now scuttled $ 620,000 sale of property it owns in Coeymans, Mayor Kathy Sheehan said departments heads will have to take a hard look at overtime costs to fill the gaps in Albany's $ 168 million 2018 budget.

Around the time he was nominated in early June, vowing to «turn the comptroller's office on its head,» town supervisor Quigley sent a routine memo to fellow town - board members and department heads that he was taking his «annual one - week summer sojourn.»

The Senate has stated that ministers and heads of government agencies and departments are delaying passage of 2018 appropriation bill, threatening to take a major legislative...

Prior to his appointment to the ICT department, he was the head of the Police Command and Staff College at Winneba in the Central Region, a position he took after he was transferred as the Accra Police Commander in May 2016, prior to the elections.

Elia told lawmakers that she takes very seriously a letter from the federal education department, which is now headed by former State Education Commissioner John King.

A statement signed by the Head of the Legal Department of the Oil Company Mr. Seun Bakare said «We take exception to any malicious publication and slander orchestrated by certain people in a bid to disrupt our business.

This paper has again cited documents to the effect that, the claim that Menzgold was into cash deposits, has gone through various stages since July, 2016, when the head of the Financial Institutions Supervision Department, J. Kofi Amoa - Awuah, took issues with the operations of Menzgold.

Gallo's first budget as mayor also took a hard line on departmental spending — he rejected about $ 2 million in purchases, including new police, fire and public works vehicles, requested by department heads.

The county executive structure does take some power away from the board as a whole, such as in hiring of department heads, Acquario explained.

The statement added that Peter Nyarko Opata, who served as deputy to Mr. Seidu Inusah has now taken over as the substantive head of the department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

Further ordered that all County department heads and deputies under the leadership of the County Executive become fully compliant with the Chapter VI, Section I, of the Erie County Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, and all department heads shall take appropriate action to ensure all County employees within their department are in compliance with established County policy; and it is

Sponsored by Sen. James Seward of Oneonta, the bill — which now heads to the Assembly and Gov. Andrew Cuomo — takes aim at new regulations from the Department of Financial Services that prohibit title agents and insurers from offering clients meals, entertainment and gifts to win business.

Four days after officially taking over as head of the nation's largest municipal police department, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill was sworn in today at a ceremony at police headquarters in Manhattan.

«We have the best health department in the country, and the best health commissioner in the country, and what you have seen in each of these outbreaks is a calm, cool - headed, fact - based way of communicating with the public and reassuring New Yorkers about what steps they need to take to get the resources they need,» Mr. Johnson said,

In his welcome address, the Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity (VEP), Barrister Jacob Ayanda emphasized the need for the participants to take the training seriously as the new policy implies a profound diffusion of voter education to the grassroots as part of preparations towards the 2019 general elections.

Highway superintendent Chris Marx took on a lot more duties in the last two years than what is expected of or called for from a highway department head.

He spent the 1950s working for the party and, after two unsuccessful Parliamentary contests at St Ives in 1950 and Halifax in 1959, he was appointed as Head of the Labour Party's Research Department and took charge of the renewal of party policy following its third successive defeat in 1959.

Also revealed were the newly created roles of secretary of state for exiting the European Union, Brexit minister, which is to be taken up by David Davis; and a new Department for International Trade, to be headed up by Liam Fox.

Ramakrishnan, who was accompanied by Tony Cheetham, the Royal Society's vice president and treasurer, Julie Maxton, the society's executive director, and Catharine Young, a science and innovation head at the British Embassy, later took their message to officials at the State Department and to John Holdren, the White House science advisor, during separate meetings.

One student describes how the head of department effectively took sides with his supervisor:» [My supervisor] came into my office and accused me of trying to undermine his status among his colleagues by spreading malicious rumours about him.

The most commonly adopted procedure is that the student with a grievance should take it to the head of department or director of research, but this can sometimes make the problem even worse.

The project team of Professor Raffaella Ocone, Dr Liz Elvidge, and Suzanne Massie met with Heads of Department (HODs), who confirmed that promotion was based on research, not teaching, and on the number of publications, which affects women taking maternity leave and those coming from industry.

If the FCC can create a way to provide television white spaces to wireless users, the agency might take a similar approach to free up other unused or underused areas of the spectrum, for example those currently utilized by the military, radar and fire and police departments, says Luke D'Arcy, head of cognitive radio technology at Cambridge Consultants, a technology development and consulting firm.

«I took some amphora fragments [from the ship] to my sister who was studying at university,» recalls Kocabaş, now head of the Istanbul University Conservation Department.

More galling was when she was left out of decision - making altogether, including a few times when department heads reassigned male colleagues to take over her projects without consulting her.

Cliff Megerian, MD, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, offered Diane a new prosthesis he invented and took two years to develop.

In the strongly worded letter dated 16 May from seven Center department heads and senior scientist Harvey Alter, they wrote that the claim that patient safety took a back seat to research is «quite simply, incorrect.»

Late last semester, the department head, who himself rambles on from time to time as he lectures, delivered a diatribe telling us we should be grateful that our professors took time to impart their wisdom to us.

One Wednesday morning I had a chance to have coffee with a former math department head who, thankfully, has taken an interest in my progress toward my Ph.D..

After completing his Ph.D., he did many different jobs unrelated to his studies before taking his current role as a senior teaching fellow and head of outreach in the physics department at Imperial College London (ICL).

Even more so that the head of my department was the institute's overall director, therefore, I took on much of his day - to - day departmental administrative responsibilities.

Alexander Borst, head of the study, adds: «That was real teamwork — almost all of the members in my department took part in the experiments.

The story could have ended there, but Calvin's destiny took a sudden twist when researchers from the University of Oslo found him swimming in a tank, killed him with a blow to the head, and took samples from his body home to their big freezer at the Department of Biosciences.

Other officials expected to take part in the talks include Xie Zhenhua, head of China's Climate Change and Coordinating Committee, U.S. State Department climate change envoy Todd Stern, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and White House science adviser John Holdren (ClimateWire, July 27).

-LSB-...] If you live in or ever visit San Francisco, take a tip from fellow blogger Krystal Bick and head over to Jeremy's department store.

I spent most of the day in the layout department, where the kindly computer dudes took a Polaroid of me, scanned it, and slapped my head on the body of Claudia Schiffer, their current cover girl.