Sentences with phrase «years of public service came»

If only ten percent of the people that Pat McCullough helped in her 40 years of public service came to her funeral, then the island of Manhattan would...

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(Reuters)- U.S. organic food delivery service Sun Basket has hired banks for an initial public offering (IPO) that could come in the second half of the year, sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

Under the extant Public Service Rules, an officer retires from service after serving for 35 years or attaining the age of 60 years, whichever comesService Rules, an officer retires from service after serving for 35 years or attaining the age of 60 years, whichever comesservice after serving for 35 years or attaining the age of 60 years, whichever comes first.

She's also served on the boards of the NFEC, the East End Arts Council and the Oysterponds Historical Society, and her principal public service came during her five - year stint as chair of the Southold Town Planning Board.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

«I hope she'll evolve and do more oversight of and investigations into city services and corporate misconduct rather than coming across like merely a vice president or deputy mayor,» said Mark Green, the city's first public advocate and an endorser of one of Ms. James» rivals last year.

They supported our NI rise and opposed David Cameron's # 6bn of unspecified public service cuts for the coming year.

We have 50,000 graduates every year coming out of the universities and other tertiary institutions and hoping to find work in the public service.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.