Congress refused to pass the so-called Dream Act, but Obama proceeded to order agencies to effectively guarantee the very same changes.
Perhaps there is a mail-order agency that delivers one to each distant Pacific Island once a year and then packs them away like Christmas decorations for the next year's celebrations.
Effendi Anas, the head of Jakarta's public-order agency, vowed to carry out raids on nightclubs where rampant drug use is suspected.Not to be left out, members of Indonesia's national parliament joined the fray.
Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat.
From 2003 to 2005, Alatech and one other company making condoms for Usaid fell behind on their orders, agency officials said.
Already, the administration has imposed a hiring freeze and ordered agency spending cuts of more than 10percentt.
At first they were aimed at some of the companies and individuals involved, then at the entire economy.The sanctions regime is made up of a bewildering multitude of laws, executive orders, agency directives and UN Security Council resolutions.
After learning the staffers had somehow gotten their hands on the Panetta Review, Brennan ordered agency personnel to sift through the walled-off Senate computers, breaching a prior agreement under which the CIA had promised not to access those drives.
In December 2009, Mr. Obama ordered agencies to update their rules to avoid overclassification, and Mr. Aftergood said there were glimmers of progress.
As the global economic crisis tightened its grip on the city, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ordered agencies to cut their expenses to make up shortfalls.
