0 a thin, flat piece of cut wood or other hard material, often used for a particular purpose: --
1 the group of people who are responsible for controlling and organizing a company or organization: --
2 an official examination given by some medical and business organizations in the US: --
4 meals provided when you are staying somewhere, usually for money --
5 to get onto or allow people to get onto a boat, train, or aircraft: --
At the drawing board the struggle is to find that difficult synthesis that, when discovered, seems self-evidently correct.
Evidence suggests that this governing board regularly exercises effective oversight of the president's activities.
This is a dual responsibility that the media is simply not equipped to take on board.
These gifts not only endeared him to many friends and colleagues but made him a valued member of boards and committees.
To these ends, the industry kept records of the boards' rulings in order to avoid costly editing that the censors might order.
However, they argue that research boards need agreed-on ethical standards so that the health services research community can adopt uniformly good practices.
No single minister was responsible for either the actions of his board, or the conduct of government in its area of activity.
Although the basic pattern is the same in 1995 as in 1975, recruitment of board chairmen has still changed significantly for both types of organizations.
