The practical question was whether the Federal Communications Commission was authorized to set time limits.
Under the law, the Fish and Game Council is authorized to set wildlife management goals and establish hunting seasons.
Mr. Fort testified that only the board was authorized to set the compensation for top executives, including Mr. Belnick.
Judges are usually authorized to set aside such decisions only in cases that they find grossly unfair.
The appeals court said the E.P.A. had been authorized to set rules that would require upwind states "to bear responsibility for their fair share of the mess in downwind states".
While the Ministry of Commerce is authorized to set rules for the auction business overall, the Ministry of Culture restricts dealings in works of art, books, archives and paintings dating to before 1949, the year of the Communist revolution.
Is the settled law which the judge is morally authorized to set aside thereby being treated, even prior to the judge's handing down of judgment, as not law?
In 1940, 32 square miles (83 square km) of the plateau, with the gap as the central feature, were authorized to be set aside as the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.
Spruille Braden, the American Ambassador to Cuba, authorized Hemingway to set up his own network, gave him nearly a thousand dollars a month to pay his men, and arranged for him to receive an allotment of fuel, which was scarce.
Mr. Nutley, 57, who sat with his wife during an interview in his production office in downtown Stockholm, said that Bates's son authorized him to set the story in Sweden in the 1950's.
