Written in Gordimer's detached, even clinical style, interruptive and staccato, almost at times like the notes for a work of fiction rather than the work itself, "Mission Statement" attains its quiet authority with the same discretion its characters display in conducting their affair.
It has replaced them and the strategic health authority with the same number of GP-led clinical commissioning groups.
All he need do, he believed, was report that they had committed rape and murder, and the military authorities would investigate with the same alacrity that civilian authorities are expected to show in such situations.
Three controls were randomly selected, by using a computer algorithm, from subtables of the health authority patient register with the same age span (0 5, 6 15, and 16+ years) and the same lead characters of the postal code as the case-patient.
A spokesperson for the Department for Education said that school budgets had been protected, with all local authorities receiving the same amount per pupil as in 2010.
Visa and MasterCard reached a settlement with the American authorities over the same charges, under which the two card companies will no longer stop retailers from steering customers to alternative, cheaper means of payment.
We understandably endow therapist with authority in the same way we do anyone upon whose expertise we depend, but an expert who always has to have the answer, can't admit mistakes or change his or her mind in response to what a patient is saying, is not someone you'd want to entrust with your care.
He acknowledged that smog was affecting an increasingly wide area and said authorities would fight pollution "with the same determination with which we battled poverty".That may be an unfortunate comparison, much of China's success in dealing with poverty having been a by-product of the same rapid growth that has wreaked environmental havoc.
"And the English authorities would have regarded them with the same horror as the customs authorities and governments of the modern world do with heroin or any sort of drug like that".
But in the Borders, council leader David Parker said the local authority was not faced with the same level of savings that many other councils as he announced a revenue budget of £254m for next year.
