You spend a lot of time thinking about market strategy, budgets, profits and losses, negotiating with the central administration and raising revenues while also maintaining quality and efficiency.
Iraq's oil-marketing organisation left Kirkuk production out of its second sales tender, issued last week, in a sign that the central administration lacks confidence about how soon the pipeline can be restored.
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What is unclear is whether the new pope, who has no experience with the central administration of the Vatican, will be adept in tackling some of the problems that face the so-called Curia.
None of the hundreds of priests, bishops and cardinals who work inside the Holy See, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, have been charged in connection with this very serious breach of security.
What is unclear is whether the new pope, who has no experience with the central administration of the Vatican, will be adept in tackling some of the problems that face the so-called Curia the Vatican's central administration that has long been seen as ineffective in governing Catholicism's sprawl.
There is some irony in Roberts' ire, of course, because the chief justice very publicly -- and unexpectedly -- saved the central legacy of the Obama administration last year when he cast the deciding vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act.
Guo Shuqing, the head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said that the regulator had already reached an agreement with the Chinese central bank and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to raise the QFII limit.
In previous administrations, the chief of staff had a more powerful and central role in the administration.
During the last two years of the Bush Administration and, without meaningful changes to date from the Obama Administration, the central tenet of the US cyber policy remains the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative.
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So I was really impressed by a video I saw recently on YouTube, in which Professor Richard Quinn, of the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida, delivers an articulate and impassioned 14-minute lecture in which he reveals that many members of his class were found to have cheated on the midterm.
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The Vatican's central administration has for long been seen as ineffective in governing Catholicism's sprawl.
So one of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility.
It ran at 90% of capacity in 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration, and Central Vermont Public Service says it's the most reliable source of power the utility has access to.
This would mean genuine, American-style federalism, not the German kind, where the central government makes policy and the states carry out the administration of it.
It strains credulity that Gorbachev's evident hope of "toughing out" the present crisis is unrelated to the substantial emergency assistance to the central authorities in Moscow now being contemplated by the Bush Administration and its counterparts in allied capitals.
One, to try to reestablish from the outside or at least pressure this administration from the outside to develop a central organizing principle for American foreign policy that is based on US strength and values.
Then last month the chief of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a division of the central bank, removed any ambiguity when he stated that China would make the renminbi convertible on the capital account in five years.
The Obama administration has made export promotion a central component of its revised economic platform, and last month the White House finalized a long-stalled trade agreement with South Korea.
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The Obama administration has proposed a central clearinghouse to make trading in credit default swaps, currently privately negotiated, more transparent.
In short, much of what has fed criticism of the Central Intelligence Agency during the present administration had its roots in Director Tenet's tenure during the previous one.
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Distinguished alumni include a third of the current members of Lebanon's cabinet, a quarter of its members of parliament, the central bank governor and foreign minister of Jordan, and the Bush administration's hawkish special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad.
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But the French can't sell much, you say, they signed the Washington Accord, that smart little stitch-up late last year when the World Gold Council persuaded the US Administration that American gold miners would sink if the European central banks flogged off gold left right and centre.
The sworn oath is central not only to our Constitution, but also to the administration of justice.
The central bank is officially independent from the administration, though the credit crunch has blurred that line significantly in 2008.
We have CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which the administration would like to see working better.
No less significant than what Livni's perfidious collaboration with the administration against her own government tells us about her character is what the nature of the Obama administration's assault on the Netanyahu government tells us about Livni's central strategic platform.
The Bush administration, which has made the spread of democratic institutions in the Middle East a central foreign policy goal, has also expressed concerns about the popularity of Hamas.
Just last week, the Veteran's Administration announced its commitment to build a new medical center in the city's Central Business District.
On the one hand, the Administration's reflexive reaction is to try to accommodate virtually any demand from the central authorities in Moscow.
Hashimoto has also found with Noda important areas of agreement, particularly reforming the system of regional administration to create larger, more autonomous regional units that would take over authority from the central government.
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