The authority said key priorities included ensuring there were minimal voluntary redundancies among staff and that the social care services budget was protected, and freezing nursery fees and charges at 2012 levels.
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Senior Tories, including the former defence secretary Liam Fox, have accused the Lib Dems of sidetracking the government over Lords reform and have urged Mr Cameron to assert his authority on key issues like the economy, Europe and welfare.
WOMEN'S groups were outraged: but when the Supreme Court this week sharply rebuked Congress for overstepping its authority and struck down a key provision of the six-year-old Violence Against Women Act, even congressmen were not surprised.
Observers say Leghari, known as the PPP's "Mr. Clean, " is increasingly using his post and moral authority to direct the government on key issues.
For the next several years he was consumed with the fen-phen cases, but argued he worked under the authority of partners who made the key decisions.
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However, the hosts' quiet authority was soon rewarded and Malbranque was key to the opener.
One big change that results from trying to manage a larger organization is a shift from a command and control environment in which the CEO makes key decisions to a delegation of authority to business-line executives.
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Encourage and develop better authentication systems, including PKI (public key infrastructure) and CA (certificate authority) schemes.
Their weaknesses are acute--Bush's constitutional authority is under attack by Congress, Abe faces key legislative elections in late July--and they also have chronic implications for international trade and finance.
The Supreme Court already weighed in on one aspect of the matter in 2006, and now will address the key issue of which lower court has authority to decide the Marshall inheritance.
But the drop was not as bad as the British Tourist Authority had feared, and it believes advertising campaigns in key markets abroad are starting to pay dividends.
The report states that "all 10 corporate governance themes which are key to a a sustainable future for the authority are now either amber (generally acceptable) or green (meeting expectations), the most favourable positions since formal intervention began in March 2011".
Reform Scotland's report, Striking the Balance, says the key to better policing is to give each local authority its own force.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority also did its part to back markets, cutting its key interest rate by half a percent -- the second such move.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Instead, Mr Soros has advocated the creation of a European Fiscal Authority (EFA) to oversee the bailout funds and make key economic decisions for all eurozone governments to establish "a level playing field".
When Fiat took control of the company in 2009, Mr. Marchionne not only retained Mr. Betts, but also gave him far-reaching authority over both Chrysler and Fiat, including final say-so on key product launches.
The lead plaintiff position is key in securities class-actions because it comes with the authority to select a lead counsel, a highly sought after role for law firms that almost always charge a percentage fee based on any recovery.
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The prosecution's key witness, the former head of Pakistan's aviation authority, testified that Sharif ordered him to refuse permission for the plane carrying military chief Pervez Musharraf and 200 other passengers to land in Islamabad, even though fuel was running dangerously low, AP said.
He said Estyn had found the authority's performance to be "unsatisfactory" because "at all key stages, standards for learners are unsatisfactory, exclusion rates are too high, too many young people are not in education, employment or training, and attendance rates in primary schools are unacceptably low".
So contra the Economist, a key element of any serious patent reform agenda should be to decentralize authority over patent appeals.
Another key appointment was that of Antonio Catricala, head of the anti-trust authority, who was made under-secretary to the prime minister's office.
In a recent interview with the Times newspaper, Ken Rogoff, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and a leading authority on the U.S. economy, singled out the unemployment statistics as a key yardstick of the severity of the crisis.
What London's mayor might lack in power he perhaps gains in influence, given his ability to appoint key board members to the agencies that keep the city running, including the Metropolitan Police Authority and Transport for London.
Leveraging the breakthroughs of public-key cryptography, bitcoin also uses peer-to-peer networking to operate without a central authority whereby the new issuance and transaction verification functions are carried out collectively by the network.
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It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well-informed and yet largely unresolved debates get reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority - "there is no excuse for inaction" - and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to dictate or resolve nothing in political terms.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres committed themselves to the quest for peace Sunday during a meeting of key figures in the Middle East peace process.
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