Mr. Ford was making such good progress that hospital officials permitted Gov. George W. Bush to visit him for 20 minutes shortly before noon.
But last year, when fires raged through the Rocky Mountain West, land management officials permitted wilderness areas in Montana and Idaho to burn, though they did little to publicize the strategy.
"He had his beret on, his red beret, and he looked as if he were sleeping," said Luis Cabrera Aguirre, a retired rear admiral who served as an adviser to Mr. Chávez and was among the first group of officials permitted access.
Instead, the department provided senior officials, permitted to speak only on the condition of anonymity, who said that resolving the lawsuits averted potentially higher costs from an onslaught of new plaintiffs or losses in court.
Pentagon officials permitted their subordinates to use government charge cards to ring up nearly $100,000 in expenses at strip clubs and "adult entertainment establishments" and almost $1m at casinos, all without serious reprisal, a new report reveals.
Kos, alone among the islands most affected by the influx, still lacks a registration and reception centre, with harassed police officers – the only officials permitted to process refugees – working around the clock to try and keep up.
Soviet military historians turned out accurate and detailed work, but since they could analyze only what Soviet officials permitted them to write about, they skirted, or, more significantly, ignored those facts and events the government considered embarrassing.
Despite a new university policy barring graduates from carrying "large objects" at the ceremony, Columbia officials permitted Sulkowicz to carry her mattress, the Spectator reported.
Yet officials permit a far wider range of discussion on the internet than in other media.
