Sentences with phrase «given smaller departments»

GDS tackled the overweening power of the huge firms that have dominated government IT in the past, and has given smaller departments and agencies the confidence to undertake some projects themselves, bringing expertise back in - house, embracing open source, and washing away some of the taint of failure from previous government IT projects.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given conditional approval to 18 states to run their own Small - Business Health Options Programs (SHOPs) and to another 17 to run their own insurance exchanges for individuals.

«The tax shield alone that the ESOP provides enables an ESOP to give a small business more debt, more senior credit, than they could get with other access to capital,» explains Mary Josephs, senior vice president of the Leveraged Finance Department at Chicago's LaSalle Bank Corp., an ESOP lender.

This dataset allowed the Department to estimate the number of firms with a given NAICS code that falls below the $ 38.5 million threshold to be considered a small entity by the SBA.

A smaller lapse would be expected for 2011 - 12, given that most funding under the Economic Action Plan ended in 2010 - 11 and restraint measures introduced in the 2010 Budget will require departments / agencies to manage closer to their appropriations in order to deliver on their programs.

The health department is also giving away minnows — small insect - eating fish for backyard ponds — and larvacide tablets at no cost.

«It was a very common sense conclusion given the fact the site the Department of Corrections owns is far away from courts and just a small percentage of the population come from Staten Island.»

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police stops.

We are thankful to her and our small but mighty team in the Department of Planning and Community Development for putting in the extra hours and dedication to bring back Memorial Field and give arts and culture room to grow and thrive.»

I began in a small department with a few clinical research associates and regional monitors and was given the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in clinical medicine.

It is a well - rounded cereal, giving you small amounts of magnesium, phosphorous, potassium and zinc, as well as vitamin A, niacin and riboflavin, according to the United States Department of Agriculture's National Nutrient Database.

SAN DIEGO — Neiman Marcus fashion director Ken Downing recently stopped by the department store's Fashion Valley location in San Diego to give a small crowd of loyal customers a tutorial on spring trends.

What constitutes an appropriately «small» or «select» number of states is ambiguous, giving the Department of Education's spinmeisters much room to work.

Of UCF's 65 departments, just six, including three small programs run through the dean's office and the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, a graduate video game design program, gave out a higher percentage of As in their classes than the School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership.

The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for price fixing (iBookstore prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting ebook prices in the long run.

Once customer's have clicked through and purchased your eBook, use your email newsletter to give them incentives for reviewing your eBook; perhaps a small gift voucher for your online store (if you already have other products for sale), a discount voucher for a department store, or even a special freebie download such as a workbook or extra product you may have created.

What the NOOK Press Program does is give qualified self - published authors the opportunity to get their books reviewed by the very same buyers — in the Small Press Department buyers and in the appropriate categories — that traditionally published books get.

After a welcome and opening remarks by Dr. Bianca Zenor, Veterinary Technology Program director, the symposium gave participants the chance to choose between large and small animal topics, ranging from a presentation on Management of Feline Hyperthyroidism by Dr. Catharine Scott - Moncrieff, professor of small animal internal medicine and head of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, to a talk about Cattle Behavior and Stockmanship by Dr. Bethany Funnell, clinical assistant professor of bovine theriogenology.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture found that the zoo's veterinary staff has failed to give preventive - care exams to a majority of the small primates, in part because the veterinarians have been preoccupied with treating older, sick animals.

Two converging trends seem poised to shake things up a bit in the small animal department, as one of those trends gives the other some serious traction.

The small size of our departments and our flexible schedule allows us to give students these opportunites to visit with artists in their studio spaces and have one - on - one conversations about how to make the transition from student to full - time studio artist.

But despite the gaggle of surveys that have pronounced on this subject, the number of firms that a given law department fires each year is probably a small fraction of all of its law firm relationships.

Total Marketing Middle East's legal department was a clear winner for the small team award, given the vast regional coverage it provides across four business units while maintaining a staff of just two counsel.

Using legal matter management systems to perform data mining saves legal professionals time and money while giving even small law firms and legal departments a competitive edge.»

The Department assumes the privacy official role will be an additional responsibility given to an existing employee in the covered entity, such as an office manager in a small entity or a compliance official in a larger institution.

«Especially in some of the small legal departments, many general counsel are trying to build a sense of value in the organization and they're very afraid to get someone who will be in there for 10 months and doesn't really give a damn about how that long - term relationship plays out,» says Parmar.