Sentences with phrase «point man on»

Meyer was the Department's point man on Congressional investigations, internal investigations and sensitive litigation.

It was Al Gore who was the point man on the most important free trade agreement (NAFTA) in the past 20 years but apparently he forgot that.

«California is running out of options to deal with the fact that it has basically been relying on more water than it has long - term access to,» warned David Hayes, a former U.S. Interior Department official who was the Obama administration's point man on Western water issues during the president's first term.

14) Tim Geithner was supposed to be the Fed's point man on derivatives.

«Any way you interpret the law, we are making sure that [test scores] are not a predominant factor,» said assistant commissioner Peter Shulman, who has become the point man on the effort.

Ramon C. Cortines, who had been working as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's point man on education issues, began his duties last month as the district's...

Raymond J. Simon, the Department of Education's point man on the No Child Left Behind Act, knows his Dr. Seuss.

Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is the point man on Jim Phelps» (Jon Voight) spy team, which also consists of Jim's wife Claire (Emmanuelle Béart), Sarah Davies (Kristin Scott Thomas), Hannah Williams (Ingeborga Dapkunaite), and Jack Harmon (Emilio Estevez).

Cuomo's first stop was the White House budget office, where he met with officials including chief of staff Jack Lew and the president's point man on Sandy recovery efforts, Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Glaser, esepcially has received kudos for the response as the governor's point man on the management.

Bharara was looking into allegations that Tom Price, the health and human services secretary and the administration's point man on efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, improperly traded health care stocks while he was a member of the House of Representatives, ProPublica reported.

The incumbent Republican's numbers plummeted a month ago when he was implicated in the Foley scandal, and they shot up when the White House tapped him as point man on millions of dollars in federal blizzard relief.

Heaney also said the investigation has statewide implications because Kaloyeros has emerged as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's point man on major -LSB-...]

It was a disappointing result for the landlords, and apparently part of the reason it came about is that Cuomo and the Democratic Assembly leadership knew that Strasburg, normally the point man on residential matters, was more interested in other concessions.

Pomey is the point man on the press; on offense he is taking over the playmaking duties — which frees Cazzie Russell and lets him crash diagonally through the lane to a corner and back out to set up a low post.

Trump's point man on the negotiation, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, has acknowledged that it gets harder if talks linger too much into next year.

After all, the Alberta Opposition Leader was the Harper Government's successful point man on wooing immigrant community votes.

Tarullo, who is the Fed's point man on bank regulation reform, said the Fed was considering capital requirements that could amount to between 20 percent to more than 100 percent over the Basel III requirements.

He will also become the government's point man on the tricky Keystone XL pipeline project, which is still awaiting approval in the U.S.

Cohn has served as a point man on top White House priorities such as tax reform and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, but both of those efforts have been muddled by Trump's increasingly combative relationship with Congress, one that was strained even further by his comments on Charlottesville.

Point men on the project are outreach specialists Marvin Moore and Emmanuel Allen, self - described «street researchers.»

Now, ex-Goldman executives populate the top echelons of the Trump administration and two of them, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, are slated to be the point men on the Dodd - Frank rollback.

Not exact matches

On Thursday night while police were hunting in Watertown, Mass. for bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at one point they arrested a naked man who looks a lot like Tamerlan.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

A video published on the Toronto Star website showed the man standing in front of the Ryder van, pointing an object at a police offer, asking him to «shoot me in the head.»

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Taken to its logical extreme, his research seems to argue that boards should have only female directors, but he's careful to point out that not all women score highly on complex moral reason (sometimes known as «CMR») decision - making, and some men do.

On YouTube, there are one - man shows that grow to a point where they physically can't do that and then are forced to collaborate or hire people they trust to help them run their channel.

The man that Wired and Gizmodo have now pointed to, Wright, reviewed Popper's book on Amazon.

In Game 5, Jackson noticed that Magic Johnson was leaving his man on defence, point guard John Paxson, to help guard Jordan.

As you'd expect, men outnumber women on the list, but the 17 - to - 13 margin points to an increase in the number and quality of women pursuing leadership roles in business.

To Kelly's point, even though the Obama administration directed NASA to start working on a manned mission to Mars, many have criticized the administration and Congress for not adequately funding NASA, causing critical Mars projects to fall behind schedule.

On Wednesday, Bennett released a statement saying a Las Vegas police officer pointed a gun at him and detained him «for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»

While their first meeting at the Florida resort was hailed as a «high point» in relations between the two leaders, this summit promises to be more challenging as the two men struggle with heavy political baggage on both sides.

At one point a man asking a question (who later turned out to be from the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong) grew so irate during his questioning that when the microphone was taken away from him, he carried on speaking — virtually shouting.

One case in point is the October 2017 suicide of a man in Turkey who shot himself live on the site while viewers pleaded for him to stop.

It could be that the company is a one - man show that has reached the point where one person can't do everything on their own.

Women Are Dominating Social Media (Pew Research) On average, the proportion of women who use social media is greater than that of men by an 8 percentage point gap.

As the above video clearly shows, the man is on point when it comes to calligraphy, and has millions following his daily calligraphic updates on Instagram and Facebook.

When I spoke to Drokova, she pointed out that, based on her experience in investment, men rely more on rationale while women rely more on intuition.

The address was an opportunity — as Fortune «s Tory Newmyer points out — to humanize her husband, whose boisterous public persona sheds little light on the man he is away from cameras and microphones.

This is a man with a heavy heart and a strong moral compass that struggled to stay on point.

Twin tweets from two titans, Bill Gross and Nouriel Roubini, on Monday point to pessimistic outlooks from the men and their firms.

In Lighthouse Point, police obtained an order against a man who accused his neighbor of being a shape - shifter who took on the appearance of Osama bin Laden.

Most of those concerns focus on the singularity, a soon - to - arrive crossover point in the affairs of man and machine, where machines overtake human intelligence, and we cease to be the most interesting feature of the planet.

According to a 2014 study by the Kauffman Foundation and Hebrew University, it turns out that when a female entrepreneur tries to raise money on Kickstarter, she is 7 percentage points more likely to be funded than a man.

Zuckerberg's fishbowl office makes sense for a man who has dedicated his career to helping people share aspects of their lives, but the sight of the Facebook C.E.O. with a screen on his face was at that point best kept a secret.

Moore went on to question why the allegations had not been raised before, at which point a man shouted, «All the girls are lying?»

It's no surprise that when asked about their confidence in the political state of small business, women responded, on average, a full point lower than men (women averaged a 7 out of 10 confidence level, while men averaged an 8).

I recall one meeting at which an older pastor chided him for that, after Richard, still a little wet behind the ears, had rebutted the man's views on some point.