While you glumly tackle the first page, the tempo of the office shifts.
MODERNIZING THE BUDGET PROCESS State lawmakers must bring their opaque, dysfunctional budgeting process into the rational world: creating a trusted, nonpartisan budget office; shifting the fiscal year from April 1 to July 1 to make it easier to assess tax revenues; finally adopting approved accounting principles.
After reports surfaced this spring that Mr. Silver had accepted a discounted suite in a Las Vegas hotel run by a company that wanted to run a casino in New York State, officials said, other business was set back a week when the speaker's office shifted into a defensive, damage-control posture.
But as Mr. Obama prepares to take office, shifting power to the White House in ways both real and symbolic, caucus members have been wrestling with an unsettling reality: the new president can propel their agenda but he may also diminish their influence.
Offices shifted to city centers and residents followed, which is branded as smart cities in the late 1990s.
As head offices close, power shifts abroad and Britain risks becoming a "branch factory" economy.
Having covered the dynamic between mothers and daughters, Ms. Sherman-Palladino turns her attention to odd-couple sisters, one, Sarah (played by Parker Posey), a neurotic children's book editor who goes to the office in shift dresses and heels, and the other, Coco (Lauren Ambrose), a jaded do-nothing in Frye boots who appears to live in a Chinese restaurant.
Mark an endeavour a "pilot project", borrow people from another department to staff your office or shift the timing of a project so that it appears on another budget.
His demand to delay a deal until he leaves office would shift the onus to his successor for any deal to keep American troops in the country, said U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations.
In 2003 the government began paying benefits and pensions directly into bank accounts as well as into postal accounts, and this year the BBC stopped selling television licences through post-office branches.This shift of services has trimmed annual income across the post-office network by more than £400m, according to some estimates.
