"I'm not just competing against all the other people who are out of work," said Griff Coxey, 57, of Cascade, Wis., who was laid off in May from his controller job at a small business.
Ethan works, as ever, for the I.M.F.: the Impossible Mission Force, not the International Monetary Fund, though it's easy to imagine Christine Lagarde as his controller, immaculate in pearls, calmly instructing him to break into Greece and steal back the German cash.
Lody had heard the widespread rumour that thousands of Russian troops with "snow on their boots" had passed through Scotland en route to the Western Front, and relayed it to his controllers in Berlin: Lody's information was entirely inaccurate and had been gleaned, as he was to admit at his trial, purely from rumours: "I heard it in the boarding-house and I heard it in the barber's shop".
He's someone who understands modern public service broadcasting and in his time as controller of BBC3 he's strengthened the channel, successfully growing its reach and approval among young adults and overseeing groundbreaking output such as Torchwood, Fat Men Can't Hunt, The Baby Borrowers, Pulling and Little Miss Jocelyn".
In his role as Controller of Atomic Energy, Morgan was present for Operation Hurricane, the first British atomic weapons tests at the Montebello Islands in October 1952.
"He doesn't have a Nintendo controller in his hand.
"A pitcher once told me he didn't have a Nintendo controller in his back pocket, so he's not always going to be perfect.
In his decision, the patent controller, P. H. Kurian, said the paltry use of Nexavar in India clearly showed that the drug was unaffordable.
Peter Fincham, director of television at ITV, had, in his previous job as controller of BBC1, tried to persuade the channel to film Barnes's novel, but had been told it was "BBC2".
Bring that controller — whose workday consists of giving instructions he hopes will not cause any of the green dots on the radar screen to disappear, instructions he hopes will not be met with screams from the cockpit transmissions in his ears — bring that controller home each day, and see how easily he adjusts to the tenderness of domesticity.
