Authorization document means an intermediary document issued by the State agency and used in an issuance system to authorize a specific benefit amount for a household.
In July, Taj workers, having lost many of their benefits, voted to authorize a strike.
"Do not authorize a project that has no proven need and no benefit for Westchester residents," he said.
About 9,000 workers at a Chicago division of No. 3 U.S. grocer Safeway voted on Sunday to authorize a strike, to back their demands for higher wages and health benefits.
Triad is among the hospitals that could benefit from the increases in Medicare payments being discussed in Congress as part of the overall bill authorizing a prescription drug benefit.
Ford, which turned around financially without the benefit of federal aid, does not have such a clause, and its workers are voting this week on whether to authorize a strike if an acceptable contract cannot be reached.
Just yesterday, former Mayor Edward I. Koch said he had thought in 1982 that he was authorizing a temporary tax benefit.
And if any individual is so unreasonable as to refuse to have the rail road made through his lands, for a fair compensation, the legislature may lawfully appropriate a portion of his property for this public benefit, or may authorize an individual or a corporation thus to appropriate it, upon paying a just compensation to the owner of the land for the damage sustained.
Nine months after President Obama authorized a broad expansion of benefits for those caring for service members severely wounded in the nation's two current wars, none of the assistance has materialized and it is caught up in a bureaucratic tangle that could shrink the number of families eligible for the help.
Congressional efforts to authorize drug benefits as an integral part of Medicare have sputtered since Sept. 11, when concern about terrorism swept aside other issues on the domestic policy agenda.
The financial services company, which had earlier authorized a $1 billion increase in its buyback plan, said the repurchased stock would be used primarily to finance employee benefit plans.
