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In 2000, the chief physician at Paris's crumbling La Santé penitentiary, Veronique Vasseur, wrote a scathing exposé of "virtually medieval" conditions, complete with rat infestations, rotten food, extreme temperature variations, desperate self-mutilations, bullying, drug-dealing guards, and widespread sexual assault, often perpetrated by staff.
But whether that end will be good for the chief instigator of the crisis, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), remains to be seen.
They are perceived as places where big bonuses are awarded to chief executives and where horse-trading and old boy networks are more important than merit or hard work.
As Aidan O’Leary, UNICEF’s chief of anti-polio efforts in Pakistan, has noted, “female vaccinators are driving every single operational gain that is being made.”
Later he became Milosevic's chief of staff and joined the opposition when Milosevic began to lose his grip on power.
“It is vitally important to defend the prospects for increasing trade integration,’’ according to the IMF’s chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld.
If China’s leaders cannot overcome their fear that free election of a chief executive would produce a regional strongman, it can establish a parliamentary system in Hong Kong.
One candidate for the Senate in the recent US elections, Erskine Bowles of North Carolina (a former chief of staff to President Clinton) was judged bold and foolhardy not for proposing redistributive tax increases, but simply for placing a higher priority on the federal government paying for prescription medicines than on a further cut in the highest marginal tax rate.
Gradually, local elections spread to nearly every village and a simple decentralized system of checks and balances between the village committee chief and the village assembly was established.
Rural farmers found themselves empowered to organize themselves, criticize some authorities and even dismiss their village chief.
Three years ago, under the direction of liberal local cadres, the town of Buyan, in Sichuan Province, held the first-ever direct election of a township chief, the next level of governance above the village.
Tony Webber, a former chief economist for the Australian airline Qantas, has pointed out that, since 2000, the average weight of adult passengers on its planes has increased by two kilos.
According to Jennings, a former chief financial officer of Xing, Europe’s leading social network, “We spent years trying to persuade people that they had a problem we could solve; now I am working with companies solving problems that people know they have.”
The most notable barrage here was the affaire Stiglitz, when the World Bank’s chief economist accused the IMF of malpractice, gaining applause from bad economists and failed policy makers worldwide.
First came the resignation of IMF chief economist Michael Mussa, a formidable University of Chicago-educated economist renowned for good judgment.
As Richard Vigne, the chief executive of Ol Pejeta, put it, the government “got embarrassed.”
In 1953, however, a meeting of the chief executives of major American tobacco companies took a joint decision to deny that cigarettes are harmful.
With America's loss of interest the chief prop of neo-liberal policies has been pulled away.
The political mindset in most EU countries remains firmly focused on unemployment as the chief ill to be cured, whereas the real threat is the worsening shortage of people to fill job vacancies.
Like much campaigning, Figueres’s plan for meat-eaters is disturbing, because it suggests that the former UN climate chief is focused on banning behavior she doesn’t like, based on flimsy evidence and over-the-top newspaper reporting.
Her proposals for constitutional reform would make Ukraine a pure parliamentary republic, while retaining a president as head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces.
The other, Al Umma al-Wasat (The Central Nation), is led by Sami al-Saadi, the group’s former chief ideologist, and Abd al-Wahad Qaid, an LIFG military commander and the brother of the deceased Al Qaeda commander Hasan Qaid (Abu Yahya al-Libi).
Parliamentarians are by no means the only, or chief, victims of the cold blast of public mistrust.
As Guillermo Perry, former chief economist of the World Bank, succinctly put it: “The party is over.”
Kudrin’s nomination as Russia’s chief accountant matters because it will give him – and thereby Putin – more knowledge of corruption.
On the contrary, these tensions have heightened as a result of changes in the top echelons of the Turkish armed forces, particularly the replacement last August of General Hilmi Ozkok as chief of the Turkish General Staff.
In his 1994 presidential address to the European Economic Association, Mervyn King, then the chief economist at the Bank of England, showed that countries with the largest increases in household debt-to-income ratios from 1984 to 1988 suffered the largest shortfalls in real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth from 1989 to 1992.
Early this month, Google AI China was launched in Beijing by the company’s Chinese-born chief scientist for cloud computing, Fei-Fei Li.
Because he wants to make all decisions, he replaced a strong prime minister and chief of staff with two men unable to make decisions.
Moreover, in a recent article, Lord John Browne, former chief executive of British Petroleum, agreed that, “It is rare for a company to lose business by being too transparent.”
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