Besides, incumbents in those offices also tend to serve multiple terms.
All gear had to serve multiple purposes, so one pair of boots did the duty of three.
Their season-long mantra, Frank said, was to serve "multiple masters" in developing Yi, and the rookies Lopez, Ryan Anderson and Chris Douglas-Roberts, while remaining competitive.
The industry will also suggest forming regional support centers where additional equipment would be available to serve multiple plants, he said.
While legal rulings on the programs remain shrouded in secrecy, they continue to serve multiple purposes, from attracting profits to deterring whistle-blowers and identifying protesters.
Open floor plans, designed to let guests mix and mingle, allow employees to see from the bar to the kitchen to the retail shop, enabling them to serve multiple areas during off-peak hours.
Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary and former chief executive of Goldman Sachs, tried to assure the public that the enterprises would follow both courses, an indication that the need to serve multiple masters remains.
"A lot of what we were doing was to balance between residents and tourists, to make sure that the businesses in the town center would be able to serve multiple markets," Ms. Constantine said.
A senior Pentagon official who has been briefed on the exercise, and who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the political delicacy of the matter, said the exercise appeared to serve multiple purposes.
A new "parkway" station in the east Midlands at Toton, on the edge of Nottingham towards Derby, is tipped to be the only other stop on the eastern branch to Leeds, as planners try to balance the demand for the new track to serve multiple cities with the time losses that would blunt the capabilities of high-speed rail.
There was a time in the not so distant past when many, if not most, publicly held corporations, including the one for which I worked, embraced in their mission statements, codes of conduct and similar pronouncements a responsibility to serve multiple stakeholders: their stockholders, of course, but also their employees as well as customers, suppliers and the community in which they operated.
