But over the next two decades the school system shifted from high autonomy and low accountability to the very reverse: low autonomy and high accountability.
Professional jobs also feature high levels of autonomy, which research shows boosts employee satisfaction.
Political leaders from eastern Libya, where most of the country's oil is pumped and last year's revolution started, demanded a high degree of autonomy.
Serbia insists that Friday's deal, granting a high degree of autonomy to Serb-majority areas in northern Kosovo, does not mean that it has recognised Kosovo's independence.
English solicitors, for example, have had to accept a trade-off between high incomes and professional autonomy.
Autonomy is a high priced enterprise product that Google is challenging through its Google Search Appliance.
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Academies are independent state schools with outside partners, high levels of investment and greater autonomy.
But for the time being, Autonomy is a rare bright spot in an otherwise depressing high-tech landscape.
To emphasize how Autonomy would transform HP into a software giant focused on high-profit business customers, and, perhaps, to forestall some nagging questions about PCs and the tablet failure, HP also announced that it was exploring the sale or spinoff of the PC business and that it was closing the WebOS device business.
But high-tech militaries are developing or have already deployed precursors that illustrate the push toward greater autonomy for machines on the battlefield.
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