OCC spokesman Bryan Hubbard said the OCC has a policy of not commenting on specific institutions, but added, "as we have stressed before, the OCC expects the independent consultants to exercise their independence in reviewing and evaluating each file.
"Promontory's analysis is the sole and final basis for outcomes in the [foreclosure review]." A spokesman for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees the review program, said that the regulator "expects the independent consultants to exercise their independence in reviewing and evaluating" each loan.
Although these responses were previously visible to Promontory reviewers, they never had any bearing on Promontory's independent testing processes". OCC spokesman Bryan Hubbard said the OCC has a policy of not commenting on specific institutions, but added, "as we have stressed before, the OCC expects the independent consultants to exercise their independence in reviewing and evaluating each file.
True, employees want independence and autonomy, but most of them want to exercise their independence in service of high standards.
"For over 200 years," Mr. Gabler writes, "normal Americans have longed to exercise their independence and free themselves form the tyranny of the elitists".
For those of us who work with boards, the managerial power idea is impossible to reconcile with our experience that the vast majority of today's directors are very conscientious, anxious to exercise their independence, and, if anything, wary about overpaying the chief.
When fervent individualists feel that they cannot exercise their independence, they experience a crisis and assume that larger forces are to blame for usurping this freedom.
This fuelled their determination to exercise their independence and have a say in what happened to them, including making choices about their access and utilisation of maternity care.
Cooper labored to help officials in Washington, D.C. understand that India's reluctance to align with either the West or the Communists in China and the Soviet Union was their way of exercising their newly won independence.
As Azerbaijani's exercise their independence, the unique representation of their language reflects a transition to a new independent identity.
