These knowledge workers didn't expect to stay in one business unit in one region; they understood that they would be working in teams organized specifically to tackle pressing assignments in succession.
The work at hand had been among Steidl's projects in progress for more than five years, and Gossage's notes and technical specifications had languished in Steidl's analog filing system dozens of trays lining a wall in his office while more pressing assignments jumped to the head of the line.
When I worked in synagogues, I was amazed that regardless of pressing assignments, we dropped everything when a community member or congregant's relative died.
Ensuring quarterback C.J. Brown is proficient with the offense is among the most pressing assignments over the next month leading to the season opener on Sept. 1 against William & Mary.
As a student, she was overwhelmed by her work schedule and her pressing class assignments and just a lot of life which "...had been filled with the dark blues of stress".
Assignments address pressing real-world questions related to chocolate consumption, social justice, responsible development, honesty and the politics of representation in production and marketing, hierarchies of quality, and myths of purity.
Not answering every email right away or waiting to finish a work assignment that's less pressing or skipping out on those after-work drinks once in awhile is not the end of the world.
Besides pressing for, and occasionally winning, better assignments and quicker promotions for black officers, it also has served in tense moments as a bridge between the community and the police, and spoken out against the latter.
Even with the imminent availability of sequenced scaffolds from high throughput methods there remains a pressing requirement for alignment with sequenced BACs and unequivocal assignment and orientation to respective chromosomes.
However, the taxonomic and functional assignment of the obtained sequence fragments remains a pressing problem.
Participants were instructed to indicate whether each word was old or new by pressing one of two buttons with their right or left thumb (assignment of old/new to left/right was counterbalanced across subjects).
