The Flight Shift Director, who was responsible for real-time decisions within a set of flight rules, The Mission Deputy Shift Manager (MDSM) for the MCC was responsible for the control room's consoles, computers and peripherals, The MDSM for Ground Control was responsible for communications, The MDSM for Crew Training was similar to NASA's 'capcom,' or capsule communicator.
But by the 1950's the pattern was shifting: the director George Stevens won it in 1953 (the year his "Shane" lost best picture to "From Here to Eternity").
Man of Steel was overseen by the team behind The Dark Knight and the studio's other recent Batman films, screenwriter David Goyer and Christopher Nolan (shifting from director to a producer's role).
And yet I do feel that the wind has shifted; artistic directors are more open now and do not see my kids as a barrier.
In three startling boardroom shifts, the directors of the Interpublic Group of Companies in New York voted yesterday to demote the chairman and chief executive of the troubled agency company, replace him with another top manager and dismiss the leader of its largest and most problem-plagued division.
"There has been a big shift," agrees James Darley, director of graduate recruitment at Teach First.
"It's a manifestation of a larger shift," said Brian Cotton, director of consulting for Frost & Sullivan, a technology consulting company.
"We are all becoming very large energy players, and this is a shift," said Brian Janous, director of energy strategy at Microsoft.
"Of all the things that end up on our streets, chewing gum is the hardest to shift," said Leith Penny, director of environment and leisure at Westminster council.
Responding to the bike shift, Wadjda's director, Haifaa al-Mansour, has said: "We should be happy that changes like this are taking place.
But foot patrols have some thoughtful backers.Such patrols work best if officers return to the same street several times in each shift, says Jerry Ratcliffe, director of Temple's Centre for Security and Crime Science.
