Worse, he had allocated bundles of shares to 16 City institutions on a "gentleman's agreement" that they would hold them as "a core of high-quality investors who would be there in good times and bad".
At the time, Cable said: "We wanted to make sure that the company started its new life with a core of high-quality investors who would be there in good times and bad, interested in Royal Mail and the universal service it provides for consumers over the long term".
So I'd like to spend a little bit of time in demonstrating to you what a core of high-quality individuals can accomplish in a short period of time in a community-based teaching hospital/cancer center.
Patient experiences and satisfaction are important determinants of the quality of healthcare. 1 Patient experiences constitute a core dimension of quality in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development quality indicator project, together with effectiveness and safety.
The next step is to test the measures in real data, to find out the reliability of each indicator and to validate a set core of quality indicators that can be used to assess HIV clinical care and may be used to compare services, hospitals or even countries.
Hand in hand with the extension of patient surveys designed to "capture the specific experiences with care in terms of what did or did not happen from the consumer's perspective" ([ 86] p.793), was the solidification of experiences as a core dimension of quality and means of expressing the patient's view [ 87].
Since functional status is a core determinant of quality of life among older people, interventions that either delay the onset of frailty or attenuate its severity are likely to have cascading benefits for aged adults, their families and society.
Sexual well-being is acknowledged as a core aspect of quality of life for people affected by cancer, particularly those receiving treatment for pelvic malignancies (Flay and Mathews, 1995; Wenzel et al, 2005; Vistad et al, 2006; Foster et al, 2009).
Data utilization for decision making is a core component of quality within this building block, as well as attributes of the data utilized, such as timeliness and accuracy of required reporting.
Veneer is a core of plywood coated in higher quality wood, while plywood is compressed sawdust and wood bits.
