Fewer members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the industry's trade body, are in public practice than in 1989.
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"What they're trying to find out through this investigation is what government official broke the oath that they signed to protect classified information, " said Matthew Miller, who left the Justice Department in 2011 and is now a public affairs consultant in private practice.
In practice, public utilities operate much more like government agencies than like businesses.
Graves, Jr. is a distinguished and experienced Mississippi jurist, who was an attorney in private practice and public service before taking the bench.
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In April 2011, he launched a controversial public debate on the practice of Islam in secular France, saying many French people were concerned by the "failures of integration".
In practice, the public prosecutors sought the death penalty in fewer than 5% of the cases.
Now, even though she is in private practice, other public defenders seek her help on the tough cases.
Senior professionals in private industry were less surprised by the size of the salaries, but were nonetheless indignant about the severance payments which, they said, contravened traditional practice in the public sector.
In theory, these days are the opportunity for the Commons to exercise its core responsibility to monitor the use of public money - in practice, they're debates on issues raised by select committee reports.
Watson has been in development for four years, and this is its first big public practice match before it goes on national TV in February for three matches against these giants of trivia.
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However, KKR and Apollo Global Management are publicly-listed private equity firms that apparently had not been singled out before for this practice in spite of public disclosures about everything else.
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In fact, today the New York Department of Environmental Conservation is holding one in a series of public hearings on proposed regulations to better govern the practice in that state, home to one of the largest natural gas reserves, the Marcellus play.
This is part of the contract that forms the basis for the patent system: in exchange for teaching the public how to practice the invention, a patent holder is granted a time-limited right to exclude others from doing so.
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But in practice, the knowledge problem and public-choice problems make such an ideal bank an illusion.
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The Institute also aims to engage citizens in diplomacy and to encourage them to participate in building peace through research, practice and public engagement.
It is common practice for public services to mount in-house bids when offering contracts for public competition.
He chooses to, in the pursuit of a more civil discourse in our public space, he chooses to try to practice that civility himself.
Some in organized labor say they find the practice embarrassing, even if they are loath to criticize a fellow union in public.
His overriding comments on Muslims, in general, were certainly laudable and long overdue in the public place in as far as they spoke to the irrelevance of a candidate's personal faith practice.
Mr. Bisgay is a certified public accountant and was employed in the Financial Services Industry Practice at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1989 to 2001, most recently as a Senior Manager.
Although he spent eight years in private practice, Spitzer has made his name in public service, first in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Robert Morgenthau, later becoming head of its Labor Racketeering unit.
From there she went to work for a state public defenders office, then opened a private practice in 1997.
Two newspapers, the New York Times and the Guardian, kept the story in the public eye, depsite News International's insistence the practice was not widespread.
She used the innovative approach being delivered through the i2i programme to secure regeneration benefits from public investment in the housing sector as an example of good practice.
The force originally detained Mr Price and Mr Bonnard, who have been suspended from duty, on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, fraud by abuse of position and corrupt practice.
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The force originally detained Mr Price and Mr Bonnard, who are suspended from duty, a year ago, on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, fraud by abuse of position and corrupt practice.
"I left the FSA with the intention of finding a role which would allow me to put into practice the experience I have gained in both the public and private sector, " he said.
Churchill was found to have committed a corrupt or fraudulent practice, received information that was not in the public domain and misled an official and hindered an investigation, as well as causing jockeys to breach the rules.
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The law languished for a century until it was revived in 1986 by Senator Grassley and John Phillips of the Center for Law in the Public Interest, the lawyer who later went into private practice to pursue whistleblower cases.
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