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proctor

1. a member of the teaching staff of any of certain universities having the duties of enforcing discipline

2. US (in a college or university) a supervisor or monitor who invigilates examinations, enforces discipline, etc.

3. (formerly) an agent, esp one engaged to conduct another's case in a court

4. (formerly) an agent employed to collect tithes

5. Church of England one of the elected representatives of the clergy in Convocation and the General Synod

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Proctor, a university graduate from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, qualified as a teacher and Ofsted inspector, and ran her own business preparing primary schools for government inspections.

Proctor for three years and that's it, that will be a failure for the board," Dowell said after the board's 6-0 vote Wednesday night on Proctor's $305,000-a-year deal.

Staff let themselves into Mr Proctor's room, in Langland, Singleton Park Campus, where they found his body face down on the floor.

I am really excited and looking forward to it," Proctor said.

Proctor told a medical practitioners tribunal: "She wanted a piece of the pie.

"Folie a deux" recalls Proctor's visit to an elegant and unimaginative therapist who asks her to review her "life story." In response, Proctor produces a weepy memory of her high school graduation ceremony--an event of no great significance, she insists, except for the fact that no one in her family, not even her mother, bothered to attend, leaving Proctor red-robed, barefoot, and alone in the school parking lot, fenced in by other people's spectacular displays of love.

Combining a scholarly publication with a searchable online database, "The Best of Proctor's West" includes Fawn (first and second models), Stalking Panther (multiple variations), Arab Stallion, Indian Warrior (large and small versions), Moose, Elk, Q Street Buffalo, Buckaroo (multiple variations), Pursued (1914 and 1928 versions), Buffalo Hunt, and On the War Path.

On recommendation of the inquiry report, a show cause notice was issued to Proctor and Gamble Pakistan.

I have been in publishing since 2003," Proctor said, "and every year it gets harder to rise above the crowd."


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