As one respondent to a recent Mencap survey said: 'I thought we had the right to live our own lives as we want to live them but we have no autonomy.

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In the most extreme cases, you find top executives with no freedom and autonomy whatever.

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The SEC, for its part, had no authority over Autonomy.

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This man had no thought about local autonomy or about this issue.

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It would have no central bank, no monetary freedom and limited fiscal autonomy.

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So, then, no more tears for the ARA. Autonomy can do the daily tasks of driving faster, cheaper, safer, better, and we should let it.

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Head teachers are not, by nature, shrinking violets and many will no doubt be up for any extra autonomy they can wring out of the system.

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Kabylia, a prosperous region east of the capital whose largely Berber population has begun pressing for autonomy, is now a no-go zone for the federal gendarmerie.

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No due diligence in the acquisition of a Compaq or an Autonomy can ultimately serve the shareholders absent this very basic sense of what the company is all about.

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There is already no shortage of finger-pointing going on between HP, Autonomy and the accounting firms which were involved in the due diligence prior to the close of the transaction.

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