Like a proficient Hollywood director from sixty years ago, he has found the right balance between star glamour and social conscience.
Not that everything is harmonious at the council, despite its fresh facade -- an obviously proficient and charming new executive director, Jane Baxter Lynn -- and new headquarters in Greenport.
"It takes four years to become fluent in a language and two years to become proficient," said Dilka Román, the Tennessee director of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
In May, results showed that about a third of eighth graders who took its science exam were proficient, a statistic Gerry Wheeler, interim director of the National Science Teachers Association, slammed as "unacceptable".
It is also increasingly challenging for sustainability professionals to make a coherent business case to directors that are not proficient in environmental acronyms or intricacies.
My theory is, when a university suddenly becomes proficient at football or basketball, it is usually a sign its admissions director is being held hostage in some rural hideaway.
Currently, the bureau is being run by civil servants who are dedicated and proficient but lack the authority — and political support — that comes from a director who has the ear of the commerce secretary.
A survey of U.S. orthopaedic department chairs and sports medicine fellowship directors identified substantial variability in the number of repetitions to become proficient in arthroscopy [ 18].
"If you look at the all the creative disciplines" that marketers increasingly want their agencies to be proficient in, "what better place to be than Los Angeles?" said Engin Celikbas, partner and managing director at KesselsKramer, who works from Amsterdam and London.
"They are lone actors but often more proficient than actors who we may see at the other end of the terrorist spectrum," Charles Farr, the director general of the Office for Security and Counterterrorism, was quoted as saying in The Times of London.
