"We continue to be in a war that should never have been authorized," Mr. Obama told an audience in Iowa last week, making a not-so-subtle reference to Mrs. Clinton and other Democratic rivals.
Mrs. Clinton, in the second of two days of campaigning directed at Jewish audiences, said the Federal Trade Commission should be authorized to ban advertising that it determines is intended for young children susceptible to manipulation.
Dr. Kenneth L. Davis, president of Mount Sinai, attended a quarterly meeting of the St . Vincents medical staff on Wednesday and took questions from an audience of about 200, according to a person who was present but not authorized to talk about it.
And, he went on to a stunned audience, "phone hacking is a perfectly acceptable tool," and the editors of tabloids who authorized hacking are "heroes of journalism".
There are a few places, Mr. Obama noted with a smile, where he has not authorized drilling: the National Mall; the middle of Chesapeake Bay; or underneath the houses of the people in his audience.
She added that while audience members "might not know about it from reading the news lately," Mr. Bush had authorized $25 million for research on the embryonic cells already in existence, and she said he was the first president to authorize federal money for that purpose.
Thatcher authorized her release.
Who authorized these payments?
In August, Atlantis authorized surgery.
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