But when they are put into special measures they are buddied with well-performing trusts and have improvement directors assigned to them.
A committee of independent directors, assigned to investigate allegations by a former executive and former and current employees that the company was cooking the books, found corporate management innocent of "fraud or willful misconduct," but said its "independent counsel...identified issues with the company's overly optimistic culture and its tone at the top".
For one thing Mr. Zeffirelli was a last-minute addition, the fourth director assigned to the production.
A new executive director assigned to straighten out the cemetery's problems may have to order some remains exhumed, the Army said.
The sequel to smash hit zombie action movie World War Z now has a director assigned to it: Juan Antonio Bayona, whose drama The Impossible told the story of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Will Smith follows in the sizable footsteps of Charlton Heston ("The Omega Man," 1971) and Vincent Price ("The Last Man on Earth," 1964) as the hero; Francis Lawrence ("Constantine") follows Rob Bowman and Ridley Scott as the director assigned to this famously troublesome project.
Less obvious was the director assigned to the series: Michael Gill, father of the critic AA Gill, who did not share Clark's aesthetic viewpoint ("Michael would probably have wanted to be the barbarian at the gate," his wife observed).
The director assigned to the serial, which was eventually named The Quatermass Experiment, was Rudolph Cartier.
At our first meeting, the deputy director assigned to speak with us from Women to Women International was a man.
I was then a young director assigned to the task of looking after anything he needed in or around rehearsal, which wasn't much: a half of Guinness at lunch time, and some help managing the newfangled push button phones that were replacing the old rotary dial ones in the offices.
Kneale got on well with the director assigned to the film, Tommy Lee Wallace, but when one of the film's backers, Dino De Laurentiis, insisted upon the inclusion of more graphic violence and a rewrite of the script from Wallace, Kneale became displeased with the results and had his name removed from the film.
