The Civil Service Act of 1883, also known as the Pendleton Act, which created a professional corps of administrators, was passed after a disappointed office-seeker assassinated President James A. Garfield.
If the effort to revamp the school system is risky for the mayor, the new instructional supervisor position is intended to be his hedge, providing a corps of administrators to step in wherever principals may not be up to the task.
Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, Fuse Corps Founder Jennifer Anastasoff, USDS Administrator Mikey Dickerson and others who led efforts to resuscitate Healthcare.gov are on a recruiting trip for tech talent.
Rebuffed by the older generation, the king instituted no further reforms for the next decade, but he slowly built up a corps of able, trusted administrators with whom he began from the mid-1880s toverhaulul Siam's antiquated administration.
But it has been kept alive by legislators eager to protect their own deals with the corps and by past E.P.A. administrators who, despite deep personal misgivings, have ducked a decision pending a final environmental impact statement.
In World War II, he was the surgeon and medical administrator for the 24th Corps of the United States Army in the Pacific.
In a letter issued to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, EPA Region 10 Administrator Dennis McLerran informed the Corps that "the Agency is taking this step because it has reason to believe that porphyry copper mining of the scale contemplated at the Pebble deposit would result in significant and unacceptable adverse effects to important fishery areas in the watershed".
The agency's own staff played the role of the press corps, posing unusually respectful questions for the deputy administrator, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., retired.
Over the years, E.P.A. administrators have tended to let the corps — which has powerful friends in Congress — decide which rivers, streams and wetlands should be protected from development.
Moreover, it will allow for in-depth exploration of normative concerns that relate to individual health care worker and administrator satisfaction, workplace morale, and esprit de corps.
