Sentences with phrase «who chaired this year»

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, who chaired this year's jury, said there was a desire to celebrate artists who had previously been neglected by the mainstream.

Not exact matches

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

Even Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa)-- the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who up to even this year opposed reforming sentencing laws — has said he is open to the new proposals.

For example, Ride - On Carry - On, a kid's chair that turns a rolling suitcase into a travel stroller, was invented by a flight attendant who needed a better solution for traveling with her two - year - old son.

Rosengren did not mention whether he expects a rate hike before year end, yet the message appeared to fall in line with that of Fed Chair Janet Yellen who said last month that the case was «strengthening» to raise rates.

So when he was named last year by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to chair the federal government's blue - chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, nobody who knew him was surprised that Barton set goals of scaled - up ambition.

Senator John Thune, a Republican who chairs the Commerce Committee, asked Mayer on Wednesday why it took three years to identify the data breach or properly gauge its size.

If Fed Chair Janet Yellen wants to prove that policymakers are not being pulled along by investors who for years have second - guessed them, this week may offer a rare moment of calm to do so.

One reason the Federal Reserve Chair has used to justify keeping interest rates barely above zero is the fact that the labor force participation rate — or the share of Americans over 16 who are in the labor force — has risen over the past year.

The product «generates 10 % of their revenue,» noted committee chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz, and Mylan had «five executives in five years who earned nearly $ 300 million in compensation.»

For those who may not know, the chair of the Board of Governors is appointed for a four - year term, which is different from the 14 year terms -LSB-...]

Each automatic triennial stock option grant and each stock option grant for service as lead independent director, member of a Board committee or chair of a Board committee, in each case as described above, will vest 1/36 per month for three years starting on the one month anniversary of the vesting commencement date, subject to continued service in the capacity for which such grant was made (except that if a director who was granted such an option ceases to be a director on the day before an annual meeting that is held earlier than the anniversary date of the vesting commencement date for that calendar year, vesting will accelerate with respect to the shares that would have vested if such director continued service through such anniversary date).

It's a subject Buffett has addressed before, and one where the 86 - year old investor differs with longtime partner and the Berkshire vice chair Charlie Munger, who says he would tell his heirs to keep Berkshire shares.

«Cheryl Stevens is an eminently respected leader, who has guided our organization over many years and continues to be at the forefront of advancing opportunities for women's businesses in the marketplace,» said Laura Taylor, WBENC Board Chair.

In the years I served on and even chaired commissions for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), some commissioners regularly vilified the «old dragons» who haunted successors by serving on boards.

Saturday's rally was nearly two years to the day more than 600 vehicles paraded down the Alaska Highway for a rally in support of LNG at Charlie Lake, said Taylor Mayor Rob Fraser, who chairs the Northeast B.C. Resource Municipalities Coalition.

Weisz is replacing Jim Shmerling, President and CEO of The Children's Hospital Colorado, who served as CMN Hospitals» board chair for two years and will continue to serve on the board.

Weisz, who has been a member of the charity's board for seven years, will take the chair reins on Jan. 1, 2015.

During her press coverage, Fed Chair Janet Yellen expressed doubt that the U.S. economy can grow much faster than 2 percent annually over the next couple of years, placing her squarely at odds with President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to boost GDP growth as much as 4 percent.

Sydney designer Tom Fereday — who presented limited - edition polished brass and aluminium versions of his acclaimed Sia dining chair — has participated in Local Milan every year since its inception.

(Warner, who serves as vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been interested in Facebook's psychological effects for years.)

Former Rep. Jeff Miller, R - Fla., who chaired the House Committee on Veterans» Affairs before retiring from Congress last year, is considered a leading candidate to become President Donald Trump's next nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The market is also anxiously waiting for the successor of current PBoC chair Zhou Xiaochuan, who is set to retire after holding office for 15 years.

«I suspect we still have a long road ahead, but that was a nice milestone,» said Y Combinator President Sam Altman, who also chairs the Y Combinator Research project that plans to give $ 1,000 a month to 1,000 people across two U.S. states for five years.

Our U.S. Chief Investment Officer, Bob Levy — who is retiring at year - end — chairs our weekly Stock Selection Group meetings and is the external face to Harris Associates clients.

The Green Party Member of European Parliament, a German citizen who looks even younger than his tender 35 years, shepherded the legislation through as vice chair for the parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

The airline group amended Munoz's employment agreement last year after a furor over the treatment of a passenger, leaving open who should chair the board in future.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also chair of Christian Aid, said: «This year we have seen extreme weather displacing millions of people in South Asia and bringing death and destruction in the Caribbean and the United States.

For 30 years the men of the town come to sit in his chair, talk to him and visit with neighbors who are waiting.

Ambassador Jakob Tobing, who — after the fall of Soeharto in 1998 — chaired Indonesia's first democratic election and then for three years chaired the commission that rewrote the constitution into a democratic document.

Sitting in the barber's chair at Wittenberg, one day, Luther was talking to his old friend Peter Beksendorf, who had been cutting hair and beards there for many years.

This crude image of John Paul as a Polish Lear raging impotently on the heath underlies what is perhaps Bernstein and Politi's most egregious passage: an eight - page account of the March 1994 meeting between the Pope and Mrs. Nafis Sadik, the UN bureaucrat who was to chair the Cairo world population conference in September of that year.

The father of the building's architect and the department chair that year, Ralph Tyler Flewelling, was a Methodist who wanted to establish a Christian intellectual outreach to the Far East.

Andy Perdue, who's been covering the wine industry as a journalist for many years, is Honorary Chair; Dick Shaw, founder of Shaw Vineyards, is Honorary Grower; and -LSB-...]

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

He's funny without being childish, gets down on himself without expressing his temper as outwardly as you would expect a teenager to on the court (with the exception of an embarrassing and impulsive display earlier this year that left a chair umpire injured, which he publicly apologized for) and would be just as believable as a teenager whose family pushed him into male modeling, or a loafing next door neighbor who mows your lawn.

Another bunch of whites, who didn't know either group and didn't want to, was caught up; two people were knocked unconscious, one of them a 23 - year - old college student, Barbara Steele, who was struck by a chair and would receive six stitches near her left eye.

I imagine the golfer, who is not identified, to be John D. Rockefeller or some other captain of industry, but that may be because Rockefeller appears elsewhere in this book as a 91 - year - old with a golf club, seated on a chair at his private golf course in Ormond Beach, Fla..

With easy adjustments, quick cleaning and a versatile range of use, this high chair is best for budget - conscious families who want a one - chair option for home and travel — for years to come.

This seat is best for a child who is a little bit older and ready to leave a high chair — it's recommended for children 3 years and up.

Let alone if you have another child 4 years and above who can easily open the chair which results in the baby falling (with face towards floor!)

One of the more successful reformers on the state level has been Doug Andreassen, who spent seven years as the president of Washington Youth Soccer and is now the committee chair for U.S. Soccer's Diversity Task Force.

My three year old who loves his chair.

Designed for toddlers 18 months to five years old, Lyft is the perfect seat for kids who have outgrown their high chairs but aren't yet ready to safely and comfortably sit in a chair for grown - ups.

The High Chair is recommended for kids who can sit up on their own, from six months to approximately three years.

The Abiie Beyond does not accommodate newborns, but is means as a high chair for feeding babies who are ready to sit up and eat meals from 6 - months to 3 - years.

The Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation was registered in January 2006, and is run by a body of trustees chaired by Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, who, as Sir Robert Armstrong, was Heath's principal private secretary during his premiership (and was later Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet secretary for many years).

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

Bailey, a Bronx district leader, has close ties to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who was chair of the Bronx committee until he was elected to the chamber's top post last year.

Chaired by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former European Commissioner Lord Patten, the line - up included two distinguished politicians who have been deeply involved with Ukraine's integration over many years: former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former head of NATO, Javier Solana.