Money managers who have the authority to make the actual investment decisions are required to register as investment advisors and disclose their backgrounds to the SEC, on Form ADV, including any disciplinary or criminal history.

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One is the granting of legal authority and the other is actual funding for the war.

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Mr Dobson said the charges would be in the range of a "couple of quid" but said the actual fees would be decided when the authority had passed the appropriate traffic regulation orders.

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Can a governor suspend local authority and install a receiver who can actual run local government effectively while solving whatever financial problems it is suffering from.

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The aversion to female leadership, then, comes from prejudice rather than negative experience with actual women, and can dissipate as more women attain positions of authority.

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The obvious regulator in that case would be the European Banking Authority (EBA), which currently writes rules but does little actual supervision.

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Moreover, it is not uncommon for certificates to be issued by self-proclaimed experts or painting restorers who have no real authority or scholarship about the artist, and whose guarantees carry no real weight in the actual market.

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They are perfectly happy to let the Syiems carry on with their cultural functions. (Most senior officials including the Chief Minister and the Governor of Meghalaya turned up at the Nongkrem dance.) But when it comes to the actual business of governance, such as law enforcement or revenue collection, they are a little patronizing about the authority of the Syiems.

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