Reconciling these two roles is the mark of a great university.

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Which of those two roles are you filling these days?

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These other two types have supporting, rather than starring roles in the brain, and cannot transmit nerve impulses.

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GM's solution is to give the two executives displaced by Mr Wagoner specific roles in combating these problems.

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These folks are typically referred to as duallyregistered advisors and can play two roles: one held to a fiduciary standard and the other to the suitability standard.

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The number of people employed by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has dropped by about 4, 000 in the past two years, although many of these were not in document-checking roles.

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These two groups have been traditionally unable to work productively and collaboratively since they were defined into different roles.

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These two banks, with UniCredito Italiano, own 25% of Mediobanca, but, in an odd inversion of roles, it is the investment bank that has usually pulled the strings.

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