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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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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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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It is common practice for public services to mount in-house bids when offering contracts for public competition.
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.
The Institute also aims to engage citizens in diplomacy and to encourage them to participate in building peace through research, practice and public engagement.
One such fight is now going on in Congress, where a bill that would expedite the practice on public lands has been strongly backed by the White House.
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 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.
One big reason so few folks can perform at the podium: The only way to get good at public speaking is to practice, and very few people have any opportunity to actually practice speaking in front of groups of strangers.
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.
Another key priority for the scheme is for successful projects to share best practice across the public sector.
This guest post was written by Justin Knapp, an investor relations professional in China and director of Ogilvy Public Relations, China Outbound Practice in Beijing.
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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.
"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.
Perhaps we all underestimated how complicated it would be to move genomic knowledge into the practice of medicine and public health.
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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Not only do they verify an organization's 501c3 public charity status (a standard practice), but they also review an organization's operating materials to ensure that its work matches donors' expectations.
This site includes a career blog written by Blake, with articles like 8 Ways to Practice and Improve Your Public Speaking and Promotions: 10 Tips to Moving Up the Corporate Ladder.
McGladrey is the next tier public accounting firm with the alternative practice structure and exposure to Madoff and Petters fraud litigation as well as responsibility for the Sentinel fraud.
The government could track the overall costs created by each practice and make those numbers public as well.
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But, at the moment, public opinion seems to be against the practice.
This will lead to more Parliamentary debate on security matters, public hearings on the national security strategy, and - as promised - greater transparency over appointments to the Committee so that the Committee can not only review intelligence and security but also perform a public role - more akin to the practice of Select Committees - in reporting to and informing the country on security matters.
Could we attract talented lawyers to public service without the freedom to reenter private practice?
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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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From there she went to work for a state public defenders office, then opened a private practice in 1997.
In some areas, parents register their daughters for membership at birth, a practice usually reserved for the grandest public schools.
It was pushed by a public-interest lawyer who then launched a practice for whistleblower cases, pocketing millions (see box, p. 92).
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