As the manager of the A's, Howe strictly followed the front office's directions and took Oakland to three straight playoffs.
I called Foster's office for directions.
"They're giving us and the Household office very firm direction indeed".
"I was doing work in the office under the direction of the chief of staff".
In 1934, the code was given new teeth with the creation of the Production Code Administration, an enforcement office under the direction of the implacable Joseph I. Breen (the subject of a previous book by Doherty, "Hollywood's Censor").
Sites like the Foresight Exchange captured the headlines last summer when Congress discovered that a Pentagon office under the direction of Adm. John M. Poindexter was planning a similar system in which anonymous players could bet on the likelihood of events like acts of terrorism.
In politics, Brenner replies, the answer is simply democratic voting that allows voters to throw the bums out of office and change direction when things go badly.
She told me to take a train to the city's main terminal, and then call the office for further directions.
This one grew to incorporate additional security requirements and Congressional offices, under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, Alan M. Hantman, who retired in 2007.
Electricity is currently fed over cables to homes and offices in one direction, but increasingly there is the ability to send back information the other way, on how much is being used, by what, and for how long.
