In 2005, for instance, Director Porter J. Goss rejected the recommendation of an internal review that "accountability boards" be established to determine which senior C.I.A. officials should be blamed for intelligence breakdowns before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Directors who grew up poor are the least likely to romanticize the lives of poor people — for instance, no director offers as compassionate a view of the sufferings, desperate measures, and jangling emotions of working people as did Charlie Chaplin.
When I started, for instance, the director was expected to light his own shows.
For instance, the director alone decides which rules to approve and which enforcement actions to file against Wall Street.
For instance, Howard Glaser, director of operations for the State of New York and adviser to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, gets right to the point today: "Hope to partially reopen JFK tomorrow.
At SAP, for instance, Thomas Neumann, director of human resources, admits that his vast database of 22,000 people in 50 countries works "better for skills than for competencies".
Sometimes the system works, and sometimes, even with established and justly acclaimed filmmakers, it doesn't—as, for instance, the director Jacques Doillon told me a few years ago.
In 2008, for instance, Argentinian director Andrés Muschietti made an electrifying three-minute short about two little girls on the run from their demonic mother.
Out of the blue, for instance, the director spins an exuberant fantasy of a futuristic Chicago that is completely abandoned except for a few Buddhist monks.
And in an annoyingly tantalizing instance, Peter Horrocks, director of global news, declares: "It is no secret that... ...... What follows has been redacted, however, so that it is in fact a secret.
For instance, the director of a nursing home must be able to measure the proportion of seniors with Alzheimer disease in order to plan the appropriate level of services for the residents.
