EDITORIAL STRIKE TWO.EVEN though the salary for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive keeps on soaring soaring: see flight; glider. soaring or gliding Sport of flying a glider or sailplane. The craft is towed behind a powered airplane to an altitude of about 2,000 ft (600 m) and then released. -- in the last week going from $242,000 to $270,000 a year -- nobody qualified wants such a thankless task. The first candidate offered the opportunity rejected it outright. Then the county supervisors settled on Tom Mauk, an Orange County bureaucrat who briefly accepted the job -- then a day later changed his mind. It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have easy to understand why. The CAO job might pay well, but it has serious drawbacks -- like being the fall guy for all that goes wrong in county government, without having the power to fix it. That's why some supes say we need a county mayor, someone who has the power to take charge of county government -- because they won't. Give the candidates who have turned down the CAO position some credit. At least they refuse to accept a big salary for a job they can't or won't do -- unlike the supervisors. |
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