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.
"We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.
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.
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.
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.
He improvised with digression and authority at the same time; it's a neat encapsulation of an ideal within the jazz tradition.
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.
The pages of the Times in Van Anda's day had the same authority with the journalistic profession that the sacred gold plates had among the Mormons of Joseph Smith's day.
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.
With story collections like "What Was Mine" and novels like "Another You," this change in authorial method made for fiction with a new depth and emotional chiaroscuro: fiction that demonstrated the author's ability to limn her characters' inner lives with the same authority she brought to descriptions of their daily routines.
