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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion that law underlies this extraordinarily tunny and witty book (Stephen Potter in the Sunday Times) which also makes some painfully serious points for those in business or the Civil Service. 

Executive responsibility for drugs and devices at European Commission level is located within the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry. This is the equivalent of a civil service department at national level. As such, the focus is more on the development of policy and legal/administrative provisions. 

Haber was slow to grasp the implications of the Nazis rise to power. As Germans boycotted Jewish businesses and Hitler s brownshirts removed Jewish students from university libraries and laboratories, the Nazis passed a law on April 7, 1933, to cleanse the civil service and universities of Jews. By this time, Haber s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute was financed by the government and its employees were treated as civil functionaries subject to the new law. Haber himself was exempt because of war work and seniority. Eager for a chemical warfare center, Nazi authorities singled out Haber s institute and ordered him to fire its Jews. At the same time, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society told Haber to somehow keep his important senior scientists. He had until May 2 to act. 

My day job is as a civil service electrician for the last thirty-four years at the Veteran s Administration hospital. March 5, 2006,1 had thirty-four years with civil service. After duty at the VA hospital, all the rest is a volunteer as a firefighter, rescue worker, or helping the county sheriff and the State Highway Patrol as an interpreter. Basically, I stay pretty busy. The federal government gave us three fire vehicles after the chlorine gas incident because our old equipment was done-in by corrosion caused directly by poison chlorine gas. This gas took the paint and chrome off our fire vehicles so it was unusable for any other purpose what do you think it did to my lungs and body at the same time ... 

Many standardized tests—including high school and college entrance exams and civil service exams—use sentence completion questions to test vocabulary and logic. Some of the alphabet soup of exams that contain sentence completions are the ... 

The competitive civil-service system is designed to give candidates fair and equal treatment and to ensure that federal applicants are hired based on objective criteria. Hiring has to be based solely on a candidate s knowledge, skills, and abilities (which you ll sometimes see abbreviated as ksa), and not on external factors such as race, religion, sex, and so on. Whereas employers in the private sector can hire employees for subjective reasons, federal employers must be able to justify their decision with objective evidence that the candidate is qualified. 

At LearningExpress, we know the importance that is placed on test scores. Whether you are preparing for the PSAT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, or a Civil Service exam, or you simply need to improve your fundamental mathematical skills, our Just in Time streamlined approach can work for you. Each chapter includes ... 

The European Commission is one of the EU s key institutions and represents and upholds the interests of Europe as a whole (EU 2006b). The Commission acts with complete political independence. It has 25 members, the so-called commissioners - one from each EU country, and each commissioner has responsibility for a particular EU policy area. The Commission must ensure that the legislations adopted by the Council and Parliament are being put into effect. The Commission is also the only institution that has the right to propose new EU legislation. The Commission is assisted by a civil service made up of 36 Directorates-General (DGs) and services. 

Dr. Frances Kelsey receives the president s award for distinguished federal civil service from President Kennedy for blocking approval of thalidomide. 

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Most standardized tests—including high school entrance exams, the SAT, civil service exams, and the GRE—use synonym and antonym questions to test verbal skills. These questions ask test takers to identify the word that is most similar or dissimilar to another word, effectively testing their knowledge of two words. 

European Union s civil service, and comprises approximately 14,000 officials, has the right of initiative, that is, to draw up proposals for Union legislation. The Commission negotiates on behalf of the member states in multilateral and bilateral trade matters and in the drawing up of association and membership agreements with nonmember countries. 

Married women became a particular target. In 1918, the Civil Service had instituted a bar on the employment of married women and during the 1920s, many authorities banned the hiring of married women teachers in schools and fired those then employed.10... 

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