Perhaps the most trenchant description of the Port Authority's method of doing business was outlined in an Oct. 19, 2011, op-ed in the New York Post by the PA's former executive director (1995-97), George J.

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On September 28th, the Civil Aviation Authority, the airports' regulator, is to recommend a new method of price regulation, which will end the cross-subsidy of airport charges.

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But the moral authority of the man and his method kept its hold on the masses.

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He pointed to figures from the NHS litigation authority which showed that 82% of cases in 2010-11, where the funding method was known, were paid for by "means other than legal aid".

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In 1933 the new Iranian king, Reza Shah (a populist constitutional revolution soldier who challenged the authority of the Mullahs), challenged the British method of Iranian oil misappropriation: he declared that the British could no longer get away with taking Iranian oil without paying Iran its fair share.

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