The dropout's name was Michael Wood, and the operation he exposed was the C.I.A.'s covert use of an organization called the National Student Association.
Mrs. Beene, 53, said she announced her plans far in advance partly to win support for her efforts to give United Way of America greater control over the use of the organization's name and logo by the 1,400 local United Ways.
This demo also makes use of the organization's experimental Social API, which sits on top of Mozilla's Persona browser-based identity service.
If a powerful country can make use of the organization to promote its national interest, one can imagine the desperate needs of small states.
The proliferation of primaries, the decline of political machines and the rise of a campaign finance system that makes little use of party organizations have long since made conventions essentially irrelevant to the nominating of candidates.
The Council's use of fictitious organizations to hold money in reserve dated to at least the 1990s, when Peter F. Vallone Sr .was the speaker.
Ms. Quinn, who became speaker in January 2006, said she found out about this practice, absent the use of ghost organizations, in the spring of 2007 during her second budget process and immediately ordered it stopped.
She has said that the Council's use of fictitious organizations to hold money in reserve dated to 2001, five years before she became speaker, and that when she learned of the practice last year, she ordered that it be stopped.
Complicating efforts to account for money and materials is the growing use of nongovernmental organizations -- private relief agencies -- to deliver services on behalf of the United Nations, especially in refugee work, the report found.
"Without discussing ongoing investigations, I can tell you that we are incredibly vigilant about the use of these organizations as an end run around contribution [disclosure]," Raman said.
One of the challenges currently facing company managers is how to reduce the energy use of their organizations.
