Twenty-four hours a day, operators handle phone calls from parole officers inquiring about alerts they have received on pagers.
"The chairman is not a day-to-day operator," he said.
In the last three weeks, the group's organizer and public face, Cesar Fuentes, resigned as its day-to-day operator, threatened to sue vendors who spoke against him, threatened to quit representing them in city negotiations, then agreed to return, after all the vendors signed a petition on Wednesday avowing their "total support" and asking him to stay.
The Grangemouth oil refinery and petrochemical plant is "shut and will remain shut" until at least Tuesday, operator Ineos has said.
Before Philae's separation from Rosetta, currently scheduled for around 09 00 GMT Wednesday, operators here at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will take a series of go/no-go decisions.
"Cindy came in, and of course I've had a thirty-three-year relationship with her, and she has never been a day-to-day operator — that's not what she is," Robert Delgado said.
Briefly, patients were examined for SS by VTTQ as described above by two independent operators within the same day: one operator (LR) was a well-experienced echographiste with a long-term (>4 years) training in ARFI technique, and the other operator (MP) was a young physician who received a prior 4-hour training in ARFI procedure.
Still, more than a dozen such companies, from rural telephone operators to a fast-food franchisee and a day care operator, have lined up for I.P.O.'s recently, using a new hybrid financial instrument known as income deposit securities.
Others include KinderCare, the day care operator based in Portland, Ore., and American Seafoods, a Seattle seafood distributor.
"They would have to be half-dead before I would take them," said Ms. Hall, a day care operator who could not afford private insurance.
