Without some effort to coordinate action, she said, "it would be the blind leading the blind".
The authority is a federal effort to coordinate responses to public health emergencies.
Project America began as an effort to coordinate a national community improvement day, Joo said.
He is now chairman of Social Venture Partners, an effort to coordinate giving by other recently wealthy people.
One consumer-goods company, for example, launched an effort to coordinate research and development across its European units.
His comments also signal a more transparent effort to coordinate military assistance for the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.
When you make an intentional effort to coordinate movements with another person, it is not only oscillators that fire.
Mr. Chang also sought Dr. Quinones's support in other projects, including an effort to coordinate the construction of a light-water nuclear reactor in North Korea.
But her primary objective is what she calls a "strategic effort" to coordinate television stories with the C.D.C.'s public information campaigns.
Mr. Chirac's addition recasts the meeting as an effort to coordinate the three nations' effort to place Iraq in the hands of international stewards.
One senior administration official said the decision was an effort to coordinate the work in Iraq of all the U.S. government agencies with expertise on unconventional weapons.
