The mission of the federal Department of Labor is both sprawling and clear: "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights".
The Department's mission is, "To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights".
Due to the overwhelming success of early voting, Governor Crist and his Secretary of State have extended the polling times four hours per day in order to assure working people, the young and the poor the opportunity to vote.
Ms. Queler conducted from this edition, and "La Favorita" emerged as an opulently lyrical and dramatically assured work.
The revision, which Mr. Gergiev conducted on Sunday afternoon, is unquestionably the deeper, more assured work, with greater sweep, more sophisticated rhythmic interplay and more ingenious orchestrational twists.
His second album as Blood Orange (the electronic counterpart to his guitar-led Lightspeed Champion project) feels like Hynes's most assured work to date.
One is a completely assured work from the height of his big-budget British period, the 1946 film "A Matter of Life and Death" (retitled "Stairway to Heaven" when Universal first released it in the United States).
(The film of the 2011 concert version of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" shows her assured work opposite Neil Patrick Harris and alongside Christina Hendricks of "Mad Men". But in that show she was a small-town girl in the city who wants to move back home for marriage and babies).
Claybourne Elder does assured work as the two Georges, conveying Seurat's concentration and isolation (I wish they could find a more persuasive beard), then the mix of idealism and uncertainty in the 1980s George.
"American Standard" turned out to be a kind of bellwether piece, pointing the way toward later, more technically assured works — such as "Nixon in China," "Grand Pianola Music," and "Doctor Atomic" — that probed my sense of America's national identity.
