After a few days Byron was transferred to the adjacent ward, not for clinical reasons but as part of the staggered closure of beds.
Stegosaurus was a large herbivore that lived roughly 150 million years ago and is famous for its two staggered rows of bony plates along its back.
Forty-two of Italy's best footballers were summoned to the national training centre at Coverciano last week, arriving in staggered groups to undergo a thorough physical exam designed to gauge their readiness for this summer's World Cup.
"We have a staggered security plan for such situations: first an explosives expert takes a look – if he thinks it's suspicious, an explosives sniffer dog is sent in," said Vanselow.
Nearly 700 candidates are competing for just seven open seats in Riyadh, where the first of a series of staggered elections is taking place, through until late-April.
Hempton says he's "staggered" by this -- it does seem to fly in the face of the common conception of how markets work.
For instance, they have only a limited say in electing company boards, unlike investors in Britain, and they have to contend with staggered boards (where only a fraction of the directors stands for re-election in a given year, making it impossible for a majority of shareholders to sack the board in one go).
The premium of the purchase price over the share price before the bid is higher on average when the target has a poison pill or staggered board than when it does not.
In their absence, pay has soared and a panoply of devices has arisen to protect bosses: poison pills, staggered boards, generous golden handshakes, gentle golden parachutes, and the like.
That makes it more costly to take over the firm by tendering for its newly enlarged pool of equity.At the same time, 60% of American firms have a staggered board, under which different groups of directors are elected in different years.
