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He allowed guests and staff to leave while he searched for enslaved children supposedly hidden in tunnels.
Although the pace of decline slowed between March and April, half of that improvement was the result of an increase in government employment, owing to a one-time hiring of more than 60,000 temporary staff to conduct the 2010 census.
Senior Bank staff deployed in regions for long periods, such as Jim Adams in Tanzania and Uganda, or David Dollar in China, have enviable track records.
A nominee for the National Institutes of Health's Muscular Dystrophy Research Coordinating Committee told of being vetted by a White House staff member.
Upon assuming a powerful position, no effective leader – in government, business, or anywhere else – publicly excoriates future staff; lashes out in response to any and all criticism; disparages highly regarded public figures; or refuses to learn about the issues he or she will have to address.
(Trump’s chief of staff responded with a veiled threat, warning the director to “be careful.”)
The federal government ordered all state education ministries to ensure that health professionals trained at least two members of staff in every school to recognize and respond to Ebola.
Countries like the US can allocate more staff and specialists to support their own producers in complicated trade negotiations, while also pursuing parallel (back-channel) diplomacy.
Some Western embassies are considering downsizing their staff.
This was clear in the case of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who had been accused of domestic violence by two of his ex-wives; his second wife filed an emergency protective order against him in 2010.
These practices can have a positive impact on profits through increased productivity, lower staff turnover, greater amenability to change, more innovation, and better, more reliable output.
China’s Lessons for the World BankThe China Daily recently ran a front-page story recounting how Paul Wolfowitz used threats and vulgarities to pressure senior World Bank staff.
For starters, IMF staff could face political pressure from countries that did not qualify, particularly if those countries were among the IMF’s more influential members.
Two days after making that gloomy assessment, the French chief of the defense staff, General Jean-Louis Georgelin, followed suit.
The White House staff is said to be in a state of near collapse – bouncing from one presidential crisis to another, trying all the while to hide from a screaming president.
Toyota Europe’s executives felt that making English the working language would contribute to improving trust, communications, and efficiency, and also to retaining high-quality staff.
And treatment is complex, requiring the kind of highly skilled medical staff that is difficult to find in the affected areas.
In August, a dispute between staff members from the prosecutor-general’s office and members of the new Anti-Corruption Bureau resulted escalated into a fistfight.
When many state and local consumer groups lack even one full-time staff member who is familiar with antitrust issues, we’re a long way from properly functioning democracy.
That information can go directly onto public-health dashboards, which health managers can use to spot disease outbreaks, failures in supply chains, or the need to bolster technical staff.
Many organizations offer debriefing as part of their response to traumatic incidents - such as police officers involved in firearm incidents, or bank staff who witness robberies.
To his credit, Clinton and his staff decided, despite the violence, to make one last attempt in Taba, Egypt late in his presidency.
With two-thirds of its staff located in Washington, DC, the Bank needs to reorganize its workforce, which consists of life-tenured experts and a plethora of consultants to overcome the consequent rigidities, but little in between.
But while our staff go hut to hut to help people locate food-distribution and nutrition-support centers, we struggle to reach everyone.
Our staff heard countless stories of locals sharing the special food they had prepared for the festivities with the hungry new arrivals.
With support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the George Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation, and bilateral assistance from, among others, the Swedish government, the office has been able to hire staff at market rates, raising the quality of the government administration.
Some have even employed staff using their own money.
In the four ministries the Islamists ran, they imposed restrictions on female staff members, triggering widespread protests that ultimately forced the four ministers to resign.
I would include among them pediatric oncologists, the staff of burn units, the volunteers who treat patients with lethal infectious diseases such as Ebola, and the professionals who diagnose and treat debilitating genetic diseases and work with the afflicted families.
Unfortunately, the experiences victims are describing have included sexual exploitation by staff of the United Nations.
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