If there are several participants in an exercise group who demonstrate a need for close supervision (eg, lower cognitive functioning; very poor dynamic balance), an extra supervisor will be recruited.
It includes £2m to be spent on more rapid-response teams to fix faults more quickly, located close to known hotspots; £2.5m on accelerated train maintenance; £800,000 investment in extra signal supervisors; and £900,000 in measures to minimise the impact of bridge strikes.
In special circumstances, supervisors would also be allowed to fund a student for up to one extra year.
This explains certain charming but infuriating anachronisms, such as the fact that many Dutch elementary schools still expect children to go home for lunch and return to school in the afternoon; parents must pay extra for in-class supervisors if they want their children to stay at school through lunchtime.
At the senior level of management, new Kingston supervisors get extra training during trips to the home office in Toledo, Ohio.
Recent history has been so wrenching for the Republicans of Brookhaven -- beset by internal power struggles, voter cynicism and a withering corruption investigation by the county prosecutor -- that we are tempted to give their candidate for town supervisor, Edward Hennessey, extra points just for trying.
Fortunately, my Ph.D. supervisor had extra funding for me, so I had the luxury of a year to decide on and arrange my postdoc.
Basel 2 does allow national supervisors to add extra measures to improve a bank's risk management, but a harmonised approach is unlikely in the near term.
Attention is focused on the central bank, which was due to reply to Unipol's request for approval by December 25th, but the deadline has now slipped.With magistrates probing BPI's operations and with some actors in the BPI-Antonveneta saga also tied up in the Unipol-BNL affair, the banking supervisors will have extra reason for caution.
"Supervisors should take extra care when assessing whether a planned enforcement action could reasonably be viewed as causing significant disruption to the normal operations of the sensitive location," the memo states.
