It has been the custom for most universities to stretch the blanket of accreditation for their liberal arts school to cover the shivering body of their fine arts department.

This, plus the habit of many schools of simply adding interior design to the many subjects of their home economics department, yet, nevertheless, claiming that they teach interior design, has contributed to the low repute of many university courses in interior design.

`` We have over 20 divisions -- each of which has an engineering department headed by a chief engineer.

The new promotion manager has been employed by the company since January, 1946, as a commercial artist in the advertising department.

The fire department here has been torn for months by dissension involving top personnel and the fight between the fire fighters association and the teamsters union.

The department has just finished treating 20,000 acres in urban areas of Macon.

The commission, meeting for the first time with both of its newly-appointed commissioners, Roy Webster, of Hood River, and Dr. Ennis Keizer, of North Bend, approved a year's contract for a consultant in the data processing department who has been the center of considerable controversy in the past.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he has held a professorship in the department of computer science since 2000.

The science department has and continues to develop techniques to date artefacts, analyse and identify the materials used in their manufacture, to identify the place an artefact originated and the techniques used in their creation.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

Cessna has always had an active marketing department.

With Al-Fayed selling his Harrods department store for £ 1. 5 billion it is reasonable to presume that some of this money which has kick-started this larger scale plan into life.

Gers, a department of France, is within this region and has high quality poultry, while La Montagne Noire and Lacaune area offers high quality hams and dry sausages.

Additionally, the wing of the new Weymouth High School Chemistry department has been named in his honor.

The Hong Kong Marine department has online records of all accidents in its waters for those who would like more information on their operation.

It also has an environmental department and an extensive social assistance program.

* University of Liège, has a department called Centre d ' histoire des sciences et techniques.

* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has a Science and Technology Studies department

* University of California, Los Angeles has a relatively large group History of Science and Medicine faculty and graduate students within its History department, and also offers an undergraduate minor in the History of Science.

Kansas City has of spacious boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, five golf courses, five museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters, all overseen by the city's Parks and Recreation department.

Several researchers include the island of Cyprus in Levantine studies, including the Council for British Research in the Levant, the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, the last of which has dated the connection between Cyprus and mainland Levant to the early Iron Age.

The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.

University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.

" Studio Ghibli's computer animation department was dissolved before production on Ponyo was started, and Miyazaki has decided to keep to hand drawn animation.

Some of Nepveu's businesses were then acquired by the Compagnie Belge de Matériels de Chemin de Fer: Nepveu was appointed the managing director of the two factories in Paris, and offered Eiffel a job as head of the research department.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

Simpson's department stores, which were acquired by Hudson's Bay Company in 1978, were converted to The Bay stores in 1991.

This department is one of the museum's oldest ; it began with appropriated royal art, some of which was acquired under Francis I.

In 1967 New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, still within Westminster, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease ; the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Norman Shaw ( North ) building, part of which is used as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.

In 1998, Saks Holdings Inc. was acquired by Proffitt's, Inc., then the parent company of Proffitt's among other department stores.

** The Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England is acquired by John Lewis Partnership ( its first store outside of London ).

French control over the area was gradually established-Artois was annexed in 1659, and most of the current Nord department had been acquired by the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.

The Office of the General Counsel is charged with supervising all legal proceedings involving the collection of debts due the United States, establishing regulations to guide customs collectors, issuing distress warrants against delinquent revenue collectors or receivers of public money, examining Treasury officers ' official bonds and related legal documents, serving as legal adviser to the department and administered lands acquired by the United States in payment for debts.

The White House information systems department acquired an Alto, and sought to lead Federal computer suppliers in its direction.

The center had one large anchor department store ( Pomeroys, which was acquired by The Bon-Ton ) as well as staple stores of a growing suburban demand ( JC Penney, Woolworth's, Sears-just hardware ).

In short, Colbert acquired power in every department except that of war.

There was also the smaller Texas Shopping Centre ( formerly known as Athlone Shopping Centre, prior to being acquired by the Texas department store chain ).

Chile acquired the Peruvian territory of Tarapacá, the disputed Bolivian department of Litoral ( cutting Bolivia off from the sea ), as well as temporary control over the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica.

In 1942 the college trustees acquired the Lloyd Frank ( of the historic Portland department store Meier & Frank ) “ Fir Acres ” estate in southwest Portland, and the school name was changed to Lewis & Clark College.

In 1960, the HBC acquired Morgan's, a Montreal department chain with stores in Ontario and the island of Montreal.

Additionally, in July 2001 it acquired the Liberty House chain with department and specialty stores in Hawaii and Guam, consolidating it with Macy's West.

The magazine also sponsored an annual short story contest on Canadian themes and acquired a sports department.

After the franchise was acquired by department store chain Daiei, Inc., the Hawks were flush with new funds and a new home city in Fukuoka, the capital of the eponymous prefecture on Kyushu Island.

Its former locations were acquired by other department stores.

Weston is also head of the world ’ s second largest luxury goods retailer as Chairman of Holt Renfrew in Canada and the Selfridges Group, owner of Selfridges in the United Kingdom, Brown Thomas of Ireland, the De Bijenkorf department store chain in the Netherlands, and the recently acquired Ogilvy department store in Montreal.

Weston also purchased an interest in Brown Thomas, the upscale Dublin department store, and eventually acquired full ownership in 1984.

The remaining Oxford Street store was acquired in 1951 by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores, which was in turn taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group owned by Charles Clore.

In December 2010, Charlotte-based department store chain Belk acquired the title sponsorship, to begin in 2011 and continue for three years.