Alpha provides each team with a sales manager who functions not as a director but as a peer-level guide, helping to identify and implement innovative approaches to stalled deals (a rewrite of the manager's job we've never seen before).
Whereas before she functioned purely as a director/ producer/ shooter, she now appears in some of the videos, playing the straight man role. .
And it helps explain the difficulty of disentangling Mr. Marsalis's fruits as an artist from his function as an artistic director.
The latest indication came Monday morning, when Via Motors, an electric-vehicle company with corporate headquarters in Orem, Utah, announced that Mr. Lutz would function as an outside director to the board of management.
"A department cannot function without a director".
The captain of the ship, Kenneth L. Lay, functioned almost entirely as a director, and less as a member of management.
In connection with the LJM transactions, the evidence we have examined suggests that Lay functioned almost entirely as a Director, and less as a member of Management.
After his recovery, he had a small role in Griffith's Intolerance (1916) while also functioning as an assistant director on it.
The City Opera is functioning now without a director.
Motorola says it spent several months fine-tuning the Moto X's speech recognition to handle the varied accents around the UK - an important point if it is to function, as Andrew Morley, director of Motorola UK stressed, so you "really can use it without your hands, through the natural communications medium of voice".
As the title implies, director David Lewis' movie functions as mostly a highlights reel rather than an exhaustive look at Hentoff's life.
