Sentence examples for Plain management from inspiring English sources
Twenty or more years ago, university departments of industrial relations (and personnel management) began mutating into departments of human resource management and just plain management.
It does so by providing affordable insurance to property owners and by encouraging communities to adopt and enforce flood plain management regulations.
This means much of Hurricane Sandy's cost is likely to be borne by the National Flood Insurance Program, in which the federal government covers flood claims in communities that have adopted local flood plain management ordinances.
The city of Rockhampton later created a flood plain management policy as a result of the effects from Joy.
The group learned about stormwater management with stormwater engineer Martin Covington and flood plain management specialist Pat Varga.
Cities can participate in the NFIP if they pass a flood plain management ordinance, as Newport Beach did in 1993.
(f) Local, State, and Federal water resources and flood-plain management agencies should be consulted to determine if the proposed highway action is consistent with existing watershed and flood-plain management programs and to obtain current information on development and proposed actions in the affected watersheds.
Some of the nation's leading experts on flood protection were appointed to the board, among them California's flood-plain-management chief, a former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the marine scientist responsible for one of the first efforts, in the late '80s, to restore coastal Louisiana.
So let's get back to plain old management.
He saw Humpfer and Sigwalt's proposed ordinances as just plain bad management.
These have disguised a mix of problems including some, or indeed all, of the following: dodgy balance sheets, cumbersome structures, malevolent shareholders, over-stretched (or plain incompetent) management and obsolescent machinery.ZPS, for example, one of the Czech Republic's biggest engineering groups, has increased its sales fivefold and its exports sevenfold since 1989.
