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World Bank Group's board of executive directors and staffers complained also that Wolfowitz was imposing Bush Administration policies to eliminate family planning from World Bank programs.
When Blandy proposed an all-Navy board to evaluate the results, Senator McMahon complained to President Harry Truman that the Navy should not be " solely responsible for conducting operations which might well indeed determine its very existence.
One councilman complained that the library board was stonewalling the complaint, while another asserted that the library trustees were not serving the interests of the community “ with their ideology .” The council's actions were widely criticized, and local citizens unsuccessfully sought to have the vote rescinded.
Rose Pesotta, a longtime ILGWU activist and organizer, complained to Dubinsky that she had the same uncomfortable feeling of being the token woman on the ILGWU's executive board that Dubinsky had complained about when he was the only Jew on the AFL's board.
Taxman complained to the EEOC, saying that the board had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
However, he was sold to Derby County for £ 1million on 28 October 1988 and Oxford manager Mark Lawrenson was later sacked by the club's board after he complained to them about selling Saunders.
While there he had charge of the choirboys, having to take care of their room and board in addition to having to teach them to sing ; he complained of low pay, and eventually resigned.
At the time, some residents complained that the tract bought had been too large ; the opposition countered that unless the tract stretched far to the north, other residents and / or businesses might purchase that land, and the board would not be able to buy the land as cheaply later.
Rose Pesotta, a longtime ILGWU activist and organizer, complained to Dubinsky that she had the same uncomfortable feeling of being the token woman on the ILGWU's executive board that Dubinsky had complained about when he was the only Jew on the AFL's board.
The fixed route contract is scheduled to expire September 25, 2011, and was proposed to be awarded to First Transit, the apparent low bidder and highest scorer on the comprehensive review, however, Veolia has complained to the RTC board of bidding irregularities in the First Transit bid as well as an unfair emphasis on price in comparison to other technical factors.
Since 1888 the London directors of McIlwraith's Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co. had complained about the practices of the local board, and in 1892 they charged McIlwraith, Palmer and two others with fraud.
Ian Humphrey's widow Di Gilcrist stated, " He is actually profiting from the experience and the stigma that the case has afforded him ... It is a sad reflection of the criminal justice system that something so black and white could be manipulated to absolve Eugene McGee of his lack of moral and ethical responsibility " Di Gilcrist subsequently complained to the legal board that McGee's actions the hit-run amounted to professional misconduct.

board and Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer became President and CEO of Compaq in 1991, as a result of a boardroom coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen that forced co-founder Rod Canion to resign as President and CEO.
Rosen initiated a 14 hour board meeting, and the directors also interviewed Pfeiffer for several hours without Canion's knowledge.
At the conclusion, the board was unanimous in picking Pfeiffer over Canion.
On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.
Reportedly, at the special board meeting held on April 15, the directors were unanimous in dismissing Pfeiffer.
By late 2001, the production design helmed by Steve Mattin under Peter Pfeiffer was finalized and approved by the executive board.

board and was
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
Over the door was a board with large, inept lettering: home sweet home.
She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.
He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.
Petitioner was not denied due process in the administrative proceedings, because the statement in question was in his file, to which he had access, and he had opportunities to rebut it both before the hearing officer of the Department of Justice and before the appeal board.
Petitioner was not entitled to have the hearing officer's notes and report, especially since he failed to show any particular need for them and he did have a copy of the Department of Justice's recommendation to the appeal board.
He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
He was again reclassified 1-a by the local board.
Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.
Upon return of the file to the local board, petitioner was again ordered to report for induction and this prosecution followed his failure to do so.

board and too
Columbushaus got in on the act too, its battered facade providing a ready-made notice board of huge dimensions, which the East Germans were only too quick to exploit in this new propaganda battle.
Worf avoided romantic attachments with non-Klingons during his first few years on board the Enterprise-D. As Worf explained to both Riker and Guinan, he felt that non-Klingon females would be too fragile, and that he would have to restrain himself too much.
Very few people picked up snowboarding because the price of the board was considered too high at $ 38, but eventually Burton would become the biggest snowboarding company in the business.
The expression " back to the drawing board " is used when a plan or course of action needs to be changed, often drastically ; usually due a very unsucccessful result ; e. g., " The battle plan, the result of months of conferences, failed because the enemy retreated too far back.
The company was heavily dependent on the goodwill of government and so, when government changed, so too did the company board.
After five days of processing, the entire family was set to board for the U. S. on May 30, 1980, when, mere hours before they did so, government officials ruled that his four older brothers and older sister were too close to the draft age and had to remain.
When the schools became too crowded due to the influx of jobs in nearby Wichita, El Dorado, and Andover, the school board voted to build a middle school in Benton.
In 1990, Richard Garfield approached Wizards of the Coast with the idea for a new board game called RoboRally, but was turned down because the game would have been too expensive for Wizards of the Coast to produce.
The syndicate board overruled Schultz ; they felt that killing law enforcement officers would bring too much heat.
May the joint efforts of the royal authorities, the local police, the Wernigerode Nature Conservation Society and individual friends of the Brocken also succeed now in central Germany, through caring nurture across the board, in establishing and preserving the Brocken too, as a small, but unique, nature reserve for the German people.
If the board flexes too little or too easily, speed is lost.
The Liubo diagram is too small to have been used for playing Liubo, and is covered with the sixty terms of the sexagenary cycle which are written all along the lines of the Liubo diagram, in a similar way that the turtle diagram on the other side of the board is filled with the sixty terms.
Tito Kayak then rowed himself under a bridge whose clearance was too low for the police powerboats and switched out of the kayak, so when the kayak was apprehended he was no longer on board.
A gobo panel achieves the same idea to a much more moderate extent ; for example, a drum kit that is too loud in the live room or on stage can have acrylic glass see-through gobo panels placed around it to deflect the sound and keep it from bleeding into the other microphones, allowing more independent control of each instrument channel at the mixing board.
* May 6 – Widerøe Flight 710, a de Havilland Canada Dash 7, descends too quickly on approach in heavy fog to Brønnøysund Airport at Brønnøy, Norway, and crashes into the mountain Torghatten, killing all 36 people on board.
Foster places Joey's circuit board into a robotic vacuum cleaner ( something about which Joey is none too happy ).
Saad, as a union representative ( and not the mayor of Sidon at the time as many erroneous sources claim ), was offered a place on the company's board too.
Commerce and industry were nationalized across the board, but the economy did not grow at first if at all as the government put too much emphasis on industrial development at the expense of agriculture.
During an interview, Watts commented on her role: " She was operating in this fast-moving world and was a great bouncing board for her colleague, Salinger, but also trying to balance that with motherhood as well, and I think I definitely relate to that now and hopefully other career mothers will too.
In a few areas the vestries covered too small an area, and here they were merged into a district board for the purpose of nominating members to the MBW.
External wire connections to the board are made either by soldering the wires through the holes or, for wires too thick to pass through the holes, by soldering them to specially made pins called Veropins which fit tightly into the holes.

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