Led by Miguel Santana, the former city administrative officer who was the architect of the city's strategy to combat homelessness, the Citizens Oversight Committee has made no secret of its frustration with the slow pace of project approvals and the alarming rise in costs.
The pace of technology projects has accelerated as well.
They are buying up competitors, investing in new capacity and speeding the pace of expansion projects to feed the strong growth in China's demand for raw materials.
He took over Apple Corps in 2007, replacing Neil Aspinall, a childhood friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison who had been a Beatles principal for decades and was sometimes blamed for the slow pace of Beatles projects.
"I think what happens if we were to have a real financial cataclysm, which I don't think we're facing now, what you would probably do is slow the pace of the projects down.
The pace of big projects slowed last year but her wealth rose with Selangor's sale of a controlling stake in higher education outfit HELP International.
"The latest news in the latest weeks are even more catastrophic because we have to slow down the pace of our projects for the lack of funds … and we have no guarantee about what will happen in the next few months," says José Manuel Fernández, who is a postdoctoral fellow of the CSIC Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Madrid and a spokesperson for the Spanish Federation of Young Investigators.
In Williams's 2014 first quarter report, CEO Alan Armstrong says, "We're excited about the accelerating pace of expansion projects at Transco, (and) will serve as important infrastructure for future LNG Liquid Natural Gass) export facilities at Cove Point...".
While that slow progress has riled environmentalists, some in their ranks have quietly cheered the sluggish pace of restoration projects in the Rim fire area because they want to see the ecosystem rebound on its own.
Motivation: More and more genomes are being sequenced, and to keep up with the pace of sequencing projects, automated annotation techniques are required.
