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.
It is critical to have clean-up crews that are Certified by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration in order to assure work is performed to industry standards.
"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.
And while it may be largely a coincidence, most of her best work has been done since the Sept. 11 attacks, which she witnessed during a visit here and has made one of her themes, especially in the superbly assured works in the show's final and strongest gallery.
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).
Minghella was equally assured working on an epic canvas (as with The English Patient and his later film Cold Mountain) and in dealing with similar themes on a much more intimate scale, as in his début feature, Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), with Juliet Stevenson haunted by her former lover Alan Rickman.
