There is growing demand for boards to undergo a formal evaluation process, to assess both the performance of each individual board member and how they work together as a group.

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And they've just appointed someone to look after juveniles, to work with the Youth Justice Board, which means that that group, the under-18s, are now having concentration on them, so yes, there have been improvements.

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Sketching out a timetable, Wilson said the National Mediation Board would rule on an application for single carrier status: each work group would select union representatives.

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So, crawling out on a limb, he asked BorgWarner's strategy board for funds so that he and a small group of engineers could begin work on a new turbocharging system that would draw its power from the supersize battery instead of the car's exhaust system.

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Its board has some overlap with New Europe, and it intends to work closely with the new group.

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