On Tuesday, the director of the state Division of Elections, who works for Ms. Harris, had instructed the county that a manual recount was not authorized because there was no evidence of trouble with its voting machines.
The document also states that the use of lethal force is authorized if there is "near certainty that an identified HVT [high-value target] is present" or "near certainty that non-combatants will not be injured or killed".
Florida officials said that under the law a recount could be authorized only if there was less than a 0.5percentt difference in the machine count between the top candidates.
He declined to say on Tuesday whether the Ether Tex factory, as well as the Fame Jeans order there, were authorized.
An Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to speak, said there was much in the president's address that would please Israeli ears.
Instead, they're saying because the buyer "authorized the transaction," there's nothing they can do to help recoup the stolen money.
After all, Hussein had attacked a neighboring country, the use of force was authorized by the Security Council and there was a real coalition of disparate nations opposed to Iraqi aggression.
There was $1.07 billion authorized for advanced development funding, separate from the BioShield Special Reserve Fund.
But some people with knowledge of the episode, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for attribution, said there was another, conflicting, account: that the woman had presented herself as an asylum-seeker.
A person familiar with Mr. Geithner's thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly said that there was "no secret handshake" between the New York Fed and Goldman, describing such speculation as a conspiracy theory.
