But it is also true of insiders, who need to learn that the view from the top can be very different from the view that they were used to as the head of a department or a region.
Thomas Van Flein, the governor's attorney, said it was appropriate to complain to the head of the department about a trooper the Palins believed posed a threat to their security.
Picture a new boss who comes in to head the sales department of a high-tech company.
They include a former chief of the Australian defence force, two former navy chiefs and a former head of the defence department.
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Burton wants a 100-page report from Charles LaBella, the outgoing head of the Justice Department campaign finance task force, and a memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh, which say there should be an independent counsel campaign finance investigation.
The head of a Rochdale Borough Council department at the centre of a child abuse scandal has announced his resignation.
The group includes a political scientist, the head of an African-American studies department, an English professor and a former city attorney.
Being hairless has become identified with the idealization of youthfulness, explains Professor Susan A. Basow, head of the psychology department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.
The new head of the US defence department has arrived at a markedly tense point in the US-Afghan relationship.
This week, the United States took its first step to address the problems with the arrival in Baghdad of Paul Bremer, a former head of counter-terrorism in the State Department, to replace General Jay Garner as head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq.
My high school, being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Phys Ed department, was run by a head coach who delivered a steady stream of county championships, making his staff untouchable.
Despite the minister's remarks, the head of the wildlife department told the BBC he was not aware of plans to give a new batch of elephants to temples.
In 1955, Croft joined the newly launched ITV network, landing a job as head of scripts in the light entertainment department at Associated Rediffusion, which then held the franchise for the London area.
The third is that Mr Paige, the former head of the Houston school district, is a widely popular choice to run the Department of Education.
The "absence of vital organs made the postmortem examination difficult, " Gurmanjit Singh, head of the forensic department at Amritsar Medical College, said at a televised press conference Friday.
According to these sources, Freeh's initial request came after one of his top aides, Bill Esposito, informed him of a conversation Esposito allegedly had with Lee Radek, head of the department's Public Integrity section.
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Perhaps he should ask the head of the Department of Transportation whether there is a requirement to repair federal highways and build new ones.
Yet a January 2010 Impact Study by the federal Department of Health and Human Services that compared Head Start participants to a control group found that virtually all gains in vocabulary, math, and other skills realized by Head Start children had dissipated by the time the students completed the third grade.
In the spring of 2010, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) called for a greater role for the Department of Defense in national cybersecurity, a call that the head of USCYBERCOM, Gen.
The troubling question is why did our State Department agree to work with the head of the OIC to make this a law, get this resolution passed in the UN with the clear intent of implementing it against US citizens?
But Pepperdine law professor Doug Kmiec believes when Gonzales became head of the Justice Department, he may have encountered a common problem in the attorney general's office.
D. from Northwestern University, Robertson was a professor and head of the marketing department at Wharton from 1971 to 1994 before developing international programs at Emory University and at the London Business School.
D. from Northwestern University, Robertson was a professor and head of the marketing department at Wharton from 1971 to 1994 before developing international programs at Emory University (where he was also dean of its Goizueta Business School) and at the London Business School.
The Pentagon has tried to nominate James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, as a key player in the interim government, but some at the State Department are said to be appalled at the notion of putting a former spymaster in a foreign government.
After the hearing, the head of the FBI's Boston office, Richard DesLauriers, issued a statement describing the FBI and Boston police department's work together on a joint-terrorism task force, where police detectives had access to a database with the details of the FBI's inquiry into Mr. Tsarnaev.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.
When the company had to cut costs, it laid off the head of the division and kept that number two, who had proved she could do a better job at running the department.
It may be too much of a risk, according to the head of the Louisiana Health Department.
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