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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt had an agency staffer reach out to Chick-fil-A on government email about a potential business opportunity, emails show. The opportunity, according to one former EPA senior staff
stanley website member, was exploring the possibility of a Chick-fil-A franchise for Pruitts wife.It was the second disclosure in as many days of Pruitt asking agency staff to do personal tasks for him. Democratic lawmakers released a transcript Monday of an interview with a top Pruitt aide who said the EPA chief asked her to reach out to the Trump International Hotel about buying a used mattress.Federal ethic
stanley usa s rules bar government employees from using their positions for private gain and prohibit supervisors from directing their subordinates to carry out personal errands.EPA mails obtained by the Sierra Club under the Freedom of Information Act show Sydney Hupp, then Pruitts scheduler, reaching out to Chick-fil-A executive Dan Cathy on May 18, 2017, for a meeting, at Pruitts request, she wrote in the email. The administrator
stanley ca didnt mention a specific topic but I will touch base with him to see if there is one, Hupp said in one email.She followed up the next day. The administrator would like to talk about a potential business opportunity. Former EPA deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski said in an interview Tuesday that Millan Hupp, also a top aide to Pruitt, told him that the administrator was inquiring about the possibility of his wife acquir Lnia Bill Cosby, 81, moved to general unit at Pennsylvania prison
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stanley fr uilding housing the Cultural Affairs AgencyThe Yomiuri Shimbun20:00 JST,ensp;October 1, 2022The writing may be on the wall for handwritten Japanese.In a recent Cultural Affairs Agency survey, 90% of respondents said the proliferation of digital devices, such as personal computers and smartphones, had impacted the Japanese language and the way it was used, while nearly 90% of these respondents said their ability to accurately render kanji characters by hand had declined.The results of the fiscal 2021 opinion survey 鈥?released Friday 鈥?shed light on growing concerns over the trend away fr
stanley hrnek om handwriting.The poll was conducted from January to February, targeted 6,000 people age 16 or older and addressed issues related to language usage, the use of new words and the meaning of idioms, among other topics. About 3,600 people responded.Some 90.6% of respondents thought the spread of digital devices had impacted the Japanese language and the way they personally used it in social settings. Of these, 89% cited a r
stanley romania educed ability to accurately write kanji.Among other factors impacting the language, 89.4% of respondents expressed concern over decreased opportunities to write by hand, while 32.3% pointed to fewer opportunities to read long sentences. The agency said handwriting is an effective way to learn kanji and an important factor in properly converting characters on digital devices. We found that many people have concerns, an agency official said.
