"We have a front line responsibility to our commuters and we are a public service, so we feel very strongly that we don't want to see service disrupted ."
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Thwarting a plan to make him a top executive without line responsibilities, Turner last week won an internal battle to gain direct control over all the company's cable services, company executives said.
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Kramer has also broken down the traditional wall in journalism between newspapers'business and news staffs, giving his top editor bottom-line responsibility for the paper's revenue from readers, including circulation.
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Critical to advancement is the need for Hispanic professionals to focus on line responsibilities such as sales, marketing and finance, says Mercedes Mestre of Korn / Ferry International, a New York City search firm.
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"A lot of times, the vice-chairman isn't given anything to do, but I have specific line responsibilities, " said Lindahl, who received a three-year employment contract.
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Provosts often receive staff support or delegate line responsibility for certain administrative functions to one or more subordinates variously called " assistant provost ", " associate provost ", " vice provost ", or " deputy provost ".
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In 1991, he was asked to supervise the minivan platform team in addition to his full-time job as vice president of design _ the first time in the modern auto industry that a designer received bottom-line responsibility for a major vehicle-development program.
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The greatest danger in the weeks ahead is that bureaucratic machinations inspired by the reorganization will distract agencies like the Secret Service, Coast Guard, Customs Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service and the new Transportation Security Administration from their front-line responsibility to safeguard American security.
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In the same way, say " management jargon " to an old-fashioned CEO in Buggywhip Industries, and that executive will slip into an archaic patois of dotted-line responsibility or the oxymoronic structured competition, taking you down a critical path overgrown with zero-based weeds.
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Beevor, " Inside the British Army, " says instead that the terrible cleavages between staff and line units caused by the enormous losses during the trench warfare of the First World War meant that senior British officers decided that from thenceforth all officers would rotate between staff and line responsibilities, preventing the development of a separate general staff corps.
