The need for a system administrator whose only role is lower-level functions is no longer there.

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In addition, new companies that offer logistical coordination, specialized case management and niche capable third-party administrator services also have a role in the replacement of what was once reserved only for the re-insurer infrastructure.

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The role of the administrator has to shift from being a controller to an enabler , so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers and remove impediments that are getting in the way of their work.

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Over time, Backus was drawn into operations, and found that the management skills he had developed while running a business served him well in his new role as a campus administrator.

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Back at the center, Moore will switch out of her role as chauffeur and play the various parts of administrator, counselor, bookkeeper, teacher and diaper-changer.

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But another more liberal school of thought, popularized by Obama's budget chief Peter Orszag, health advisor Ezekiel Emanuel and the new Medicare administrator Donald Berwick, says that the government should play a role in studying the "comparative effectiveness" of different treatment options.

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This concern prompted 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts to send a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 10, admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change, while neglecting basic empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.

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Since December Archbishop Ward's work has been taken over by an "apostolic administrator", Bishop Edwin Regan of Wrexham, who is to continue that role until the new archbishop's installation at St David's Cathedral in early December.

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