Dean and Tate Modern's staff referred to it as the Monolith, after the mysterious black slab in "2001: A Space Odyssey," which it eerily resembled.
"Similarly, in modern economies, staff that are well trained and believe in the mission of the firm are more likely to be productive".
The offices were nice and modern, the staff professional and friendly.
Lloyd jokes that he and Levitan encourage the "Modern Family" staff to devote as much time as possible with their own broods during weekends and the off-season, "embarrassing each other and utterly shaming themselves publicly so we have something to write about next year".
Now, to open the new session, the Pope entered St. Peter's on foot, carrying the very modern-looking staff — a long, slender, dull-metal crucifix — that he later brought to New York and used at the Mass at Yankee Stadium.
Last week, Boris Johnson got a lot of stick from some parts of the media for being imprecise about the financial implications of his promise to replace bendy buses with modern Routemasters staffed with conductors.
He closed the religious schools, promoted coeducation, prepared new curricula, emphasized vocational and technical education, launched a compulsory adult education project, established the innovative Village Institutes program to train rural teachers, and, in 1933, reorganized Istanbul University into a modern institution staffed mainly by refugees from Nazi Germany.
The Chancellery had already come under fire during the "grand coalition" 1966 to 1969: it allegedly fulfilled its duties as an organ of coordination, information and control insufficiently, as it forewent "modern leadership staffs", "political planning and systematic data management" [110 Zundel; see 95 Süß].
Similarly, the Danish merchant fleet has modern ships, staffed mainly by native officers and a growing number of foreign crew.
