Sentences with phrase «office chair which»

The chairs» modern aesthetic is contrasted with the Aeron Chair, the standard high - end office chair which debuted in 1994, «whose exoskeleton was meant to conform to your own, so that you could sit for hours on end in supreme comfort.»

Unlike your normal office chair which does not move unless you make it move, you new exercise ball chair shifts under your weight.

Not exact matches

As head of EPA's Office of Policy, Pruitt chose Samantha Dravis, formerly of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) and its affiliated Rule of Law Defense Fund, both of which Pruitt has previously chaired.

Settlement payments are approved by the chair and ranking member of the House Administration Committee, but they are under no obligation to tell anyone else about those payments, and more importantly, which office was responsible for them.

Dinner was to be served, according to the agenda circulated in advance of the meeting of the Senior Advisory Committee, which is chaired by deputy minister of Finance and includes the heads of the Bank of Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

She manages the publication's office and organises the publication's events in Hong Kong, including the Asian Masters series, for which she chairs a panel of expert judges, and the Asian Awards.

The latest response to the rioting comes a day after David Cameron chaired the first meeting of the coalition's social policy review group, which involves ministers from the DCLG, the Home Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.

Jacobs also happens to chair the state Democratic Party — a role for which he was tapped by former Gov. David Paterson and has retained, despite considerable speculation that he would be replaced by the party's executive director, Charlie King, since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office last January.

Seven lawmakers in the Senate receive stipends under the arrangement in which they are reported to the comptroller's office for holding the post of chair of a committee when they do not actually hold that post.

However, Wright, who recently left public office to work for a lobbying firm, intends to remain as Manhattan County Democratic Chair which he describes as an «insiders game.»

Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into the arrangement in which seven state lawmakers, including three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, have received stipends and were listed as committee chairs on official payroll records sent to the comptroller's office.

Payroll documents sent to the state comptroller's office list chair titles next to lawmakers» names, but officials have insisted the designation was meant to show which lawmaker was in line for the specific stipend.

He is Vice Chair of the Progressive Caucus Alliance, which supports progressive candidates running for local office in New York City.

This position is duplicative of the Office of General Services (OGS) chief procurement officer, who chairs the New York State Procurement Council, which has representatives from the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC), the Executive Chamber and allows for eight legislative appointees, in addition to another by the Governor.

According to records from the State Comptroller's office, the Senate majority, which comprises Senate Republicans and the IDC, identified Peralta as a committee chair when requesting the stipend.

Payroll records sent to the state comptroller's office list lawmakers next to the erroneous committee chair titles, but officials insist the document was merely to show which lawmaker was due which stipend.

The Special Prosecutor himself has a small room stuffed with chairs and a dining table which will serve as his office.

The senators were reported to the state comptroller's office, which approves payroll, as chairs of the committees.

Mayor Stephanie Miner, who chairs the urban renewal agency, said Wednesday in response to the ABO report that she will continue her efforts to reduce the urban renewal agency payroll, which has shrunk by 14 percent since she took office in 2010.

Maureen Lewi, chair of Concerned Citizens for Saratoga Racing, which is leading the #WhoaCuomo campaign regarding control of NYRA, said the governor's office has contacted her and others, urging them to «lighten up.»

Duffy added a lengthy list of accomplishments during his time in office, including the economic development councils, which he chaired, and the effort to keep the Buffalo Bills in western New York.

Ms. James, who often presides over Council meetings seated in a red and white upholstered chair marked with a giant star, has also used the public advocate's office to introduce 48 pieces of legislation, 10 of which are now law.

An increase in the number of women in Albany has helped reshape the culture from an old boys» club, in which women were largely relegated to secretarial positions, to a more egalitarian environment, where women are not only elected to office, but have risen to acquire key chair positions in both houses and led the passage of women - friendly legislation.

Those charges allege that he solicited donations from people with business before the House Ways and Means Committee, which he chaired, to fund a center named in his honor at City College of New York; that he did not pay taxes on a Caribbean home; that he improperly used a rent - stabilized apartment in New York as a campaign office; and that he did not properly disclose more than $ 600,000 in income and assets.

The defendant was also accused of using his office for gratification by awarding the contract for the rehabilitation of a road and parking lot worth N12, 662,590 and the procurement of 1,277 two - seater classroom chairs worth N22, 459,237.50 to Skylight Nigeria Limited, a company of which he was the proprietor.

All of these savings figures were arrived at through analysis by the Council's budget office, which is under the supervision of Mark - Viverito, Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the finance committee, and Finance Director Latonia McKinney.

You can stretch your back along it which feels fantastic after sitting in an office chair all day.

My first duty as chair was to seek contact with and recognition by the Office of the President and two UC - wide committees responsible for postdoc policy and practices: the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA), which handles academic affairs, and the Council of Graduate Deans (CoGD), which deals with administrative affairs.

NPA chair Carol Manahan, for example, noted in her welcoming remarks to NPA the increasing number of postdoc offices and associations on campuses across the country, the spreading movement to limit postdoc appointments to about 5 years, improvements in compensation and benefits at a number of institutions, and the growth of NPA itself, which now has more than 40 institutional members, with a combined enrollment topping 27,000 postdocs as well as more than 300 individual members.

Last year, the UAB postdoc office established a Council for Postdoctoral Education — which includes department chairs, six or seven faculty members, seven or eight postdocs, and the associate dean of biomedical research.

Most of the people working office jobs, sit on their chairs all day with a rounded back and shoulders, which causes a weakness in the scapular retractors and external rotators.

Again, in offices, people are required to sit on proper office chairs with five wheels, which are fully adjustable.

Swapping out your office chair for a yoga ball is thought to raise productivity: the sitz bones must work and stay engaged in order to balance, and increased muscle activity leads to increased blood flow which result is increased alertness.

Also, I got a small throw pillow which I put behind my back for support in my office chair.

Some of the offices I inherited were dominated by large oak or black desks, file cabinets, large chairs, and bulletin boards on which to pin schedules and memos.

After several congressional leaders — most notably Rep. Barbara Lee of California — roasted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for continuing to weaken the department's Office for Civil Rights and effectively abandoning the federal role in protecting the civil rights of poor and minority children, Harris essentially encouraged DeVos (along with the planned commission on school safety over which she will be chairing) to toss the school discipline reform measure into the ashbin.

David Ross, chair of trustees, added: «We would like to thank Nick for his leadership over the last year during which he has led an expansion of NSN with the opening of our northern office and shaped a new strategy for the organisation.

It's also a marked contrast to the beautifully designed jacket and endpapers, which show Jobs kicked back in an office chair, in front of a wooden desk cluttered with paper, staring at a Mac wallpapered with a photo of his family.

Another good website for exploring the larger than life is the Roadside America website which includes Anniston, Alabama's World's Largest Chair, an office chair made of 10 tons of sChair, an office chair made of 10 tons of schair made of 10 tons of steel.

Ania landed in plane seat back to Montreal, which was sad, and I landed in an office chair where I would work for the next five months, which was only slightly less sad.

Some of the executive amenities which are available to the guests at the apartment and apartment complex include free high - speed Internet access, free local calls and an office desk and chair.

She often re-photographs the same displays (a vacuum cleaner, a leather office chair), which can remain unchanged over the course of years.

Members of the Committee include: ODINAFRICA Regional Coordinators and Project Manager, Head of UNESCO / IOC's Project Office for IODE, Chairs of the two IOC Regional Committees for Central and Eastern Atlantic (IOCEA) and the Western Indian Ocean (IOCWIO), and the IOC Vice Chair for Region V which includes Africa.

He chairs the firm's Complex Litigation Practice Group, which maintains an active national presence through MG+M's offices in Boston, MA, Los Angeles, CA, New Orleans, LA, San Francisco, CA, Wilmington, DE, Hattiesburg, MS, Lake Charles, LA, Providence, RI, Walnut Creek, CA, and Miami, FL..

Upon his return north, he joined the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a lateral, during which he successfully prosecuted and first chaired a federal jury trial involving claims of excessive force under Section 1983 (Ruffin v. Fuller).

Our Team Leaders: Our antitrust practice chair, Stephen Neuwirth of the firm's New York office, has been recognized as a «Titan of the Plaintiffs» Bar» by Law360, which also named Stephen one of just five antitrust «MVPs» in 2017.

Adams and Reese has a Pro Bono Paladin who chairs the firm's pro bono committee, which is comprised of partners representing each of the firm's offices.

Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban and Minecraft creator Markus Persson have donated $ 500,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to endow the «Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents,» which will be occupied by an attorney tasked with hunting down and destroying crappy patents that have been recklessly granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office to unscrupulous «inventors» who claim to have invented things that were obvious and / or already extant; and to pay for activists to fight for substantive patent reform.

From meeting rooms with no chairs to smart offices which measure cups of coffees drunk, toilets flushed and table football goals scored, there is a whole array of ways businesses large and small are adapting their office space to stimulate open and collaborative working.

(4) If a council member appointed as a hearing committee or as a hearing committee member ceases to hold office as a council member, the chair of the real estate council may authorize that individual to continue to exercise powers as a member of a hearing committee in any proceeding over which that individual had jurisdiction immediately before they ceased to be a council member.