It operated under federal authority and functioned as a government facility.
"Normally you have the housing authority, the City Council, the board of education, all functioning as worlds unto themselves," said Arijit De, the project's director.
Although most of the Xerox Corporation was designed as a typical multidivisional firm, its Palo Alto Research Center Xeroxx PARC) was an adhocracy with a flat authority structure that functioned as a semiautonomous innovative research unit.
William A. Ryback, the new deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which essentially functions as the central bank here, said at a news conference on Wednesday evening that low lending rates would have "some effect" in crimping banks' profit margins, but added that he was not concerned.
Kids most often identify with their parents -- but aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches and other authority figures also function as role models.
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ALBANY — After years of debate and a string of corruption scandals, state officials moved on Friday to impose sweeping new oversight provisions on the state's hundreds of public authorities, which have long functioned as a virtual shadow government largely immune to public accountability.
Authorities hope this will function as a deterrent for young criminals, but locals think the measures might be illegal and will inevitably lead to racial profiling – a charge police chief Frank Paauw countered by insisting that officers will only stop and question people who are already in their system.
Authorities hope this will function as a deterrent for young criminals, but locals think the measures might be illegal and will inevitably lead to racial profiling a charge police chief Frank Paauw countered by insisting that officers will only stop and question people who are already in their system.
Mr. Raacke said he questioned whether the authority, which he said functioned as an unregulated monopoly, had any intention of financing an effective watchdog.
The authority does not want to function as a bank for speculative office space, especially at a time when commercial vacancy rates are climbing and the Port Authority's own revenues have declined.
