At the Michigan Works job center here, where Mr. Hutchins applied for retraining money, the wait to attend an orientation session is up to two months.
Those who attended an orientation session were excluded if carbon monoxide (CO) breath testing showed a CO level of 10 parts per million (ppm) or less.
"Then she said, 'Well, we have more offices to go to now.' " For some of the gay members, their freshman orientation sessions were a reminder of just how unequally the law treats them, since the entity that cuts their paychecks and provides benefits — the United States government — is barred from recognizing their relationships.
(Orientation sessions are held twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring).
After one or more mentor-mentee meetings at the workplace, two formal orientation sessions were provided in late June 2002, with books, lectures, and discussion, at which time each mentor-mentee pair attended one of the sessions together.
Orientation sessions were provided to non-study clinical staff about benefits of EBF.
Based on the study findings, training and orientation sessions were facilitated for more than 300 media professionals.
Then we and the 14 other new students that week -- from Spain, Italy, Africa, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Russia and Japan -- were given an orientation session (everything was done in French); we were told that our student ID cards entitled us to discounts on buses, in museums, and conveniently, in the large Buffeteria next door.
Of those invited to attend the orientation session, 8 were no shows and could not be re-scheduled, 2 were found ineligible, and 74 were scheduled to return for the run-in visit for further data collection.
