Word: stewarding
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...Uhhh… actually in the script I think it actually says ‘a Beatles-type mustache’. So, yeah, a check on that one.” And what about the seemingly arbitrary decision of Ahluwalia’s character, The Chief Steward on the Darjeeling Limited, to capture a cobra using a spatula when a bevy of deadlier tools were at his fingertips?“That was in the script,” said Ahluwalia.DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILSWhen so much energy is clearly devoted to details, how, then, can Anderson maintain a sense...
When guests charter the 183-ft. (56m) sailing yacht Selene, for example, they are met by the captain, steward and seven other crew members, including the chef, Justin Arblaster. The world is his supermarket. Aged beef is flown in from England, truffles from Italy and foie gras from Strasbourg. "If the guests want Russian caviar, I can have it flown in to where we are by helicopter or seaplane," Arblaster says...
...challenge of expanding science at Harvard while maintaining the coherence of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and allowing both small and large research endeavors to thrive. Such vexing tasks don’t call for someone with a particular academic background; they require and deserve a trustworthy steward with proven leadership and intellectual abilities—someone who can listen and who will respond intelligently and appropriately to new circumstances...
...take over July 1 carries with it significant prestige but not an automatic mandate. The director of the University Library is only the first among equals in a relatively decentralized library system, and Darnton will have to work hard to seek consensus.Although the HUL director is nominally the chief steward of Harvard’s collections, he does not directly exercise budgetary authority over individual libraries but plays a coordinating role between them. While the University Library is a department of the central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds its own library independent...
...Although Darnton is considered the chief steward of Harvard’s library collections, his department’s budget is significantly smaller than the Harvard College Library (HCL), the library of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). According to the annual report from 2004-2005, the most recent available, the University Library’s budget was $16.1 million while HCL’s budget was $72.7 million...