Vice Marshal Ri's dismissal came as Mr. Kim has begun projecting himself as a leader self-confident enough to attempt significant departures from his father's ruling style.
At every CEO forum or partner meet, he has begun projecting it externally.
Michel Martelly, Haiti's new president, has talked of the need to decentralize the economy, and nongovernmental organizations have begun projects to help farmers.
She said the previous management was incompetent and had begun projects that were expensive, unnecessary and never finished, like the primate pavilion.
Other leading online providers, too, have begun projects with public universities: edX, the nonprofit collaboration founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has teamed with the University of Texas and some California State University campuses, and Udacity, another Stanford spinoff, with San Jose State University.
Contractors had begun projects at the college before approval from the public works board, which was described as a usual practice under Byrd.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations has begun pilot projects for the new group in Seattle and Cleveland.
Dr. Schmidt's team has begun a project called Essence.
The Museum of Television and Radio in New York has begun a project to interview people from television and radio about their work.
The company's retail subsidiary Oxxo, for example, has begun a project in the run-down neighborhood just behind its headquarters.
Exelon, anticipating such regulation, has begun a project to lower emissions substantially within its service territory by 2020, and said it would devise a similar program for NRG.
