The first point of assessment called T1 took place at the outset of the treatment, the second assessment (T2) six months later and the third point (T3) 18 months after treatment began.
As a result, Mr. Bloomberg has not encountered the kind of criticism over the ethnic diversity of his appointees that Mr. Giuliani endured from the outset, a point that some of Mr. Giuliani's supporters make with considerable irritation.
It is a telling formulation, because it concedes at the outset the point on which intelligence officials invariably insist: that there are rules and procedures, safeguards and oversight mechanisms, meant to guarantee that the vast quantities of information ingested by the NSA and its global partners are used only for good purposes.
At the outset, three points should be understood.
"Mr. Chairman," Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, asked at the outset, "at what point will the taxpayer no longer be on the hook for the massive A.I.G. failure?
I learned the hard way what every Web entrepreneur ought to know at the outset: At some point, you have to hire a professional information technology person.
That threatened to take Cyprus's public debt to an unsustainable 145% of GDP at the outset, a sticking-point for the IMF in particular.
Dean Holdsworth's team pressed at the outset and the talking point was Nemanja Vidic's ill-timed challenge on Alex Rodman, as the winger darted clear.
Somerset faltered in their chase from the outset and at one point slipped to 64 for six, with Ivan Thomas taking three for 31.
For educators to be and remain effective practitioners they should be enabled to "adopt enabling wellbeing strategies" from the outset, thus at the point of first appointment as educator.
