Sinai also gave him time off for class work and was so impressed with the results that it promoted him into a supervisory position.

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The director of the mortuary division at Dover, Quinton Keel, was reassigned at the base to a non-supervisory position, although the OSC report said the position was created specifically for him after he was no longer director.

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In early 2002, petitioner was offered a larger, enhanced role as the COO for the institutional client group, where she would have direct supervisory responsibility over approximately 750 people, as opposed to her previous position as COO of global foreign exchange operations where she had direct supervisory responsibility over approximately 200 people.

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"Although the business case looks viable, the negative attitude of the French government has influenced Novartis' consideration to a point that it will only enter into a negotiation phase if formally invited by the Aventis supervisory board and if the French government assumed a neutral position, " Novartis wrote in a statement.

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It weakens his position with the regional politicians and savings-bank chiefs who control WestLB via its supervisory board.

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