This gives politicians more direct control over the distribution of public services to their constituents.
Another effect of the board breakup has been to grant more direct control over the organization to Mr. Kennedy.
But I tend to the view that we would have been better off with more direct control".
Mr. Cuomo offers no evidence that, with more direct control, he could better protect the Board from unwholesome pressures.
In 1996, a change in state law gave Dr. Crew more direct control over superintendents and principals.
The aim is to bind the national operators together and give Mr Sarin more direct control of his firm.
Most of the movement will have to come from the states, however, because of their more direct control over education.
The creation of the stabilization group appears to give more direct control to Ms. Rice, one of the president's closest confidantes, who signed the memorandum announcing it.
So you have no more direct control over your how much of a textbook you can remember than you do over your blood pressure.
But under the government's localist agenda, City Hall has been given more direct control over levers for fostering economic development and directing regeneration.
The move may also presage a deeper reshuffling of the defense apparatus and more direct control of the military by Mr. Putin.
