But Williams began to take on many of the duties of campaign manager, and the lines of authority blurred -- senior advisers went to Williams for guidance, while the junior team was reporting to Doyle.

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But the administration clearly needs to establish clearer lines of authority for what goes on in the Gulf, and the government must proceed to take every action it can to ensure that the other oil companies, along with BP, put their money where their mouth is and ensure as far as humanly possible that a disaster like this one does not occur again.

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The Treasury resisted the temptation to propose a single super-regulator along the lines of Britain's Financial Services Authority, leaving itself open to criticism that turf wars will persist.

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State regulators have never been to happy about the prospect of ceding their authority to site power lines to federal officials, but they have learned to live with the guidelines set forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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Moving the lines of responsibility undermined Noa as, "there was a lot of resistance internally still, " to his authority, according to an anonymous source quoted by the Financial Times.

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Even in the case of sequestration, it will take years before the effects of across-the-board cuts in military budget authority are fully felt at company bottom lines.

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But a council spokesman said they had been removed as the authority wanted drivers to know that double yellow lines "are there for good reason and are capable of being enforced".

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