However, the school has been steadily improving under the stewardship of the new head, Dave Hooker.
Since Dwight Howard quit Florida for seemingly all points west in 2012, the talent-shorn Magic have stumbled to a patently un-magical 121 defeats amid distinct suspicions of tanking in a bid to acquire high draft picks and, yes, rebuild almost from the ground up under the stewardship of first-time head coach Jacque Vaughn.
Teachers agreed to volunteer, under the stewardship of Mr. Makuach as head teacher who says "I was educated under a tree, there is no reason you can not learn amongst the elements if that is all you have".
The conservancy, established by Mayor Edward I. Koch in 1981, set out to confirm Gracie Mansion as a public trust and to maintain a high level of design and stewardship -- in hopes of heading off radical redos.
The three-time champions looked sluggish and lacked invention at times - two characteristics that rarely reared their heads under the stewardship of Sir Alex Ferguson.
While Mr. Preston faced no opposition at his confirmation hearing for the job at HUD, Representative Nydia M. Velázquez, Democrat of New York and head of the House Small Business Committee, gave his stewardship of the S.B.A. an incomplete.
Ms. Jackson, who was a career employee at the agency for 15 years and most recently served as head of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, said President-elect Barack Obama believed that sound stewardship of the environment could co-exist with economic growth.
Mr. Van Rompuy's proposal could take main responsibility for stewardship of economic coordination out of the hands of the 27 nations' finance ministers, elevating it to the level of heads of government.
But questions about his financial stewardship of the committee make it unlikely that he would win over his detractors as the balloting heads into a second round.
Take his stewardship of London.
