1.   Health authorities are currently appointing some health professionals, mainly doctors, into managerial positions with nursing as part of their remit.

2.   Third, all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members.

3.   Yorkshire regional health authority has appointed Len Wright as its new director of finance.

4.   The authority has appointed Dr Peter Williamson, a consultant from Southampton, to head the new unit.

5.   Pro-Zapatista authorities appointed a small police force, armed with hand-hewn clubs, that follows Tzotzil Indian tradition instead of state laws.

6.   The French authorities have appointed a policeman, a schoolteacher and a local bureaucrat to run the town until the financial fog clears.

7.   The French authorities appointed an independent magistrate last summer to head an official inquest of their own.

8.   The state educational authorities appointed him as their liaison with universities in Belgium and the Netherlands.

9.   In addition, the certification authorities appointed to monitor and supervise the use of digital signatures must be licensed under the law.