Mr. Gray may have stumbled out of the gate, they say, but the charges, which involve a handful of people, represent a simple staffing mistake, not endemic corruption.
A simple wooden staff serves as the albatross, the symbolic burden of guilt.
To encourage families to think beyond a simple cremation, staff at Dimbleby, Friedel, Williams and Edmunds Funeral Homes in central New York state suggest they have a look at the body before sending it into the crematory, says Albert Abdulla, a funeral director there.
The editors of Time Inc. think so, and so does their prospective partner America Online, which has been working with the Real Simple staff to plan promotion for the magazine since AOL and Time Warner announced their plans to merge in January.
In order to optimise HR, managers must extend beyond simple staff-mix modifications to address organisational and system factors.
But rather than respond with a simple apology, the staff at Bennett's decided to offer the customer a lesson about overheads in the catering industry.
Co-ordinator, dementia services: It provides a simple structure for staff to follow in gleaning not just WHAT is important to a client, but HOW to improve the person's experience from the service.
This is a point echoed by Berenholtz and coworkers [ 6], who reported that catheter-related infections were reduced to zero by a simple mix of staff education, deployment of a vascular access cart, daily assessment of the line, a check list to ensure sterile technique, and the ability of the nurse to halt the procedure if sterility was compromised.
The mariner's astrolabe, however, was less widely used than its 16th-century successor, the cross-staff, a simple device consisting of a staff about 3 feet (1 metre) long fitted with a sliding crosspiece (see photograph).
