Part of Barracks Row is across from the barracks that house Marines, whose duties are purely ceremonial.
Then he invited Fred Mossler, a fellow-executive whose duties are so motley that he doesn't have a title, to join us for lunch.
The firms involved are the largest specialist firms, whose duties are to make markets in the stocks that are traded on the stock exchange.
In time, most towns and cities instituted a night watch, consisting of either a single man or a patrol, whose duties were to discourage thieves, keep a sharp eye out for fires, and make sure that doors were locked.
Part-time jobs held by sitting legislators have long been a source of concern to government watchdog groups, who have worried about lawmakers profiting from their elected office, through law firms or other jobs whose duties are often nebulous.
"Jubba passed through a tough period, but they can now be seen as our national airline," said Ali Mohamoud Ibrahim, general manager of the Somali Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority, whose duties were taken over by the International Civil Aviation Organization after the government collapsed in the early 1990s.
But he said that the application to be named co-administrators — whose duties are similar to those of an executor — "makes sense because both my client and the bank had been appointed as guardians".
At $850,000 for a day's worth of electricity -- $9.83 a second -- the calculation was of more than academic interest to him and to a crowd of other workers whose duties were interrupted by the cable failure.
In seeking the suit's dismissal, the Saudi government said Ms. Al Mukaddam was "a professional civil servant whose duties were to carry out a foreign policy function," the judge wrote.
Most but not all of the layoffs, Mr. Rosenshine said, were likely to occur among employees whose duties are being transferred from local BBDO offices to PentaMark Worldwide in Troy, Mich., a unit BBDO is forming to be focused on the Chrysler Group creative and media accounts.
