1.   Mr Kennedy badgered Soviet authorities into ensuring all those who deserved the honour got it.

2.   As a consequence, he writes, television reporters have evolved from authorities into celebrities, whose newscasts depend less on knowledge and research than on pure performance.

3.   But environmental groups insisted that pro-industry officials were trying to panic the federal authorities into a legislative reversal of the ruling.

4.   But it will mean little if he cannot pump other kinds of authority into his hollowed-out presidency.

5.   He also won points after helping to prod the authority into a planned expansion of the Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island.

6.   He also suggested merging several economic development authorities into one and consolidating several construction financing agencies.

7.   He manages to harangue the authorities into providing legally mandated medical examinations for the children and rescues one young boy from an abusive home.

8.   In budget negotiations, the governor has proposed folding the Long Island authority into the New York Power Authority, which operates nuclear plants and other utilities.

9.   It would also invite parents to use the threat of expensive and time-consuming litigation to harass local school boards and authorities into withdrawing controversial courses.

10.   Since most of that land is in West Texas, it pushed the waste disposal authority back into Hudspeth County, Mathews said.