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After Major became prime minister, it was misreported that he had failed to get a job as a bus conductor because of failing a maths test, when in fact he passed all of the tests, but had been passed over for the job to another candidate owing to his height.
The title of conductor is most associated with railway operations in North America, but the role of conductor is common to railways worldwide albeit under different job titles.
The camera would then pull back and show the artist doing some low-status job such as newspaper seller ( Ian Carmichael ), streetwalker ( Fenella Fielding ), dustman ( Eric Porter ), bus conductor ( Andre Previn ), or some other ill-paid employment.
However, in that year the job of conductor was abolished and the company changed entirely to driver-only services.
They also could not be promoted to conductor, a job reserved for whites, even though they frequently performed many of the conductors ' duties.
He was brought to the United States in 1926 by his uncle Patrick Quill who was a conductor in the subway and got him his first job.
He occasionally guest-conducted there, and when Arthur Fiedler had a time conflict with his job as pops conductor for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he recommended Hayman for the post.
In part, I got that job because conductor George Szell knew my father through their collaboration at the Metropolitan Opera.
Badruddin tried his hand at different occupations, including the job of a conductor in Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport ( B. E. S. T ) buses.

job and rather
Fitting the locking bars and making the locking pieces is a rather tedious job since stop screws, tappets and locking bars must be removed and replaced many times.
Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.
Industrial – organizational psychologists are typically more focused on productive behavior rather than simple job or task performance because of the ability to account for extra-role performance in addition to in-role performance.
This Act was created to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age ; to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment ; to help employers and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age on employment because in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs ; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons ; the incidence of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers ; their numbers are great and growing ; and their employment problems grave ; and the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.
Microcode simplified the job by allowing much of the processor's behaviour and programming model to be defined via microprogram routines rather than by dedicated circuitry.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data on PTAs and Techs can be difficult to decipher, due to their tendency to report data on these job fields collectively rather than separately.
Rather, the job of philosophers is to subject all beliefs ( including beliefs about truth criteria ) to criticism, attempting to discredit them rather than justifying them.
For employee performance management, using integrated software, rather than a spreadsheet based recording system, may deliver a significant return on investment through a range of direct and indirect sales benefits, operational efficiency benefits and by unlocking the latent potential in every employees work day ( i. e. the time they spend not actually doing their job ).
Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.
As the ink is running out, the printout gradually fades rather than suddenly stopping partway through a job.
The NMB defines the craft or class of employees eligible to vote, which almost always extends to all of the employees performing a particular job function throughout the company's operations, rather than just those at a particular site or in a particular region.
Q ( standing for Quartermaster ), like M, is a job title rather than a name.
As well as the above, some interesting quirks of the character include rather unusual ingenuity in his job such as: using police hang gliders, riding an ostrich, speaking hippie tongue, and using loud music to flush Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel out of Springfield Elementary ( albeit with a poorly chosen song ) to which they locked down to name a few.
In the end, however, much to the shock of almost everyone in Springfield, including his own men, Wiggum finds Bart by using a rather clever tactical method and actually performs his job admirably.
(" I got a couple of extra toes, a joint removed from each finger and a rather generalized ear, nose and cheekbone job.
Despite Barker's success on ITV, LWT's programme controller Stella Richman opted to fire Frost's company Paradine and as Barker was contracted to the company rather than the network, he lost his job, as did Corbett.
Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling have this to say about Charun: " Many scenes feature the two purely Etruscan underworld demons, Vanth and Charu, whose job is not to punish the dead but rather to escort them to their final destination.
British army officers ( the so-called Curragh Mutiny ) threatened to resign rather than move against Ulstermen whom they saw as loyal British subjects ; Asquith was forced to take on the job of Secretary of State for War himself on the resignation of the incumbent, Seeley.
Many workers today might agree that someone who doesn't know what the initialisms " FYI " or " OS " stand for is probably not competent to continue holding a white-collar job, because such jobs require a minimum degree of general knowledge, and initialisms such as those are no longer just slang for comp-sci geeks but rather have become common vocabulary in the general knowledge of all but IT illiterates.
The main thrust of critics ' argument is that the appropriate response to overpopulation is not to recruit hundreds of thousands of additional settlers, and the answer to overdevelopment in the north is not to build up the last open spaces in the second most-densely crowded country in the developed world ; rather, what is required is an inclusive plan for the green vitalization of existing population centers in the Negev, investment in long-awaited service-provision in Bedouin villages, clean-up of its many toxic industries ( such as Ramat Hovav ), and the development of a viable economic plan focusing on creating job options for the unemployed rather than promoting an influx of new immigrants and creating jobs for them.
These users may be referred to as System Administrators, referring only to the system privilege level, rather than the job function.
In the episode " Welcome Home Richie ", Fonzie finds Richie ( who has just returned home from the Army ) drowning his sorrows in a local bar after resigning himself to a job at the Milwaukee Journal rather than follow his dream to become a Hollywood screenwriter, largely to please his family.
Jerome Skolnick has argued that clearance rates demonstrate the reality of the criminal justice conflict model by encouraging police to focus on appearing to do their job, rather than on actually doing their job.

job and than
It is conceivable that Broxodent could do a better job than ordinary brushing, especially in those who do not brush their teeth properly.
Says NRLDA's James Wright: `` Since 1958 carriers that move material from the yard to the job site have undergone more radical changes than any of the dealer's other equipment ''.
Reports Jim Lendrum: `` By studying men on the job, we found that two men -- a carpenter and a helper -- can lay a floor faster than three.
The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.
The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.
If all the operating variables were varied simultaneously, Af operations would be required to do the same job, and as R increases this increases very much more rapidly than the number of operations required by the dynamic program.
If you have a year-round, full-time job you can't expect to grow much more than your family uses -- unless other members of the family do a good deal of the work or you hire help.
To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.
any kind of job was better than brooding.
Councilman William D. Schaefer ( D., Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month.
A frequent pitfall in this sort of arrangement, experts warn, is a tendency to pay the wife more than her job is worth and to set aside an excessive amount for her as retirement income.
In general, Mr. Loesser has done a more consistent job as lyricist than he has as composer.
But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.
Including the Brazilian Air Force who did a remarkable job in less than nine months of war for Brazilians, with 445 missions executed.
The best argument for rule-consequentialism is that it does a better job than its rivals of matching and tying together our moral convictions, as well as offering us help with our moral disagreements and uncertainties "
The job cuts included 120 at the Bend, Oregon facility reducing the plant that built the Cessna 350 and 400 to fewer than half the number of workers that it had when Cessna bought it.
Carly Fiorina, initially seen as HP's savior when she was hired as CEO back in 1999, had seen the company's stock price drop to less than half since she assumed the position, and her job was said to be on shakey ground before the merger announcement.
The Inquirer noted that the continued low return on investment and small margins of HP's personal computer manufacturing business, now named the Personal Systems Group, " continues to be what it was in the individual companies, not much more than a job creation scheme for its employees ".
Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that if we set out to be ' our brother's keeper ,' we would often bungle the job and end up doing more mischief than good.
A July 2009 Gallup Poll found only 30 % Americans thought the Fed was doing a good or excellent job, a rating even lower than that for the Internal Revenue Service, which drew praise from 40 %.
The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.
Controversies surrounded not only the suspicions of Leung's own conflict of interest, but also of the insensitivity of the committee which recommended the approval for him to take up his lucrative new job less than two years after his official retirement.
* Healthy user bias, when the study population is likely healthier than the general population, e. g. workers ( i. e. someone in ill-health is unlikely to have a job as manual laborer ).

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