But that strategy would give him time to transfer his position and executive functions from the Yugoslav federal presidency back to his power base within the republic of Serbia itself.

BBC: Analysis: Milosevic's options

The Governing Council has accomplished certain things, it needs to accomplish a lot more, and it needs to be doing executive functions, it needs to be organizing the constitutional progress, it needs to be organizing the electoral process.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations

Mr. Obama's proposal at the time was for Congress to grant him "consolidation authority" to combine executive branch functions, specifically singling out the five housing agencies and the six shops that deal with business like the Commerce Department and the Export-Import Bank.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Pritzker's Progress

The Government of Wales Bill contains three main elements, the first - a proposal to separate the executive and legislative functions of the Assembly has proved largely uncontroversial.

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Politics Show | Wales: Assembly powers

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants perform general office functions to keep the higher-ups of the group organized.

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Administration. (a) The Task Force shall have a staff, headed by an Executive Director, which shall provide support for the functions of the Task Force.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

They have to be turned over when the demanding branch can articulate a compelling need for the information to fulfill one of its own constitutional functions -- a need that outweighs the executive branch's interest in confidentiality.

CNN: Why contempt case against Holder may be doomed

Such an abdication of one of the Senate's most important functions might be tolerable, if reprehensible, provided the executive branch were doing its job - negotiating thoughtfully and forcefully on behalf of and toward ends that actually advance U.S. interests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Quality control or rubber stamp?

Craig Donohue, CME's chief executive, said he thought this step was unlikely and would only duplicate costs and functions.

WSJ: CME Group Plans Guarantee Fund

Tenet has largely been the invisible man during his tenure at the CIA -- overshadowed by his vainglorious former boss, Director John Deutch, and made largely irrelevant by the responsibility Deutch reposed in his controversial and autocratic Executive Director, Nora Slatkin, to perform virtually all day-to-day management functions.

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