But he repeatedly said that he favored putting power over schools in the hands of teachers, parents and administrators - not in a centralized agency, which presumably could include the Mayor's office.

McNamara consolidated intelligence and logistics functions of the Pentagon into two centralized agencies: the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Supply Agency.

Ms. Sabol also indicated she might be inclined to a dramatic reorganization of the centralized agency.

Under his plan, a powerful, centralized civilian agency would have coordinated all the intelligence services.

Europe does have a centralized regulatory agency, the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medical Products, which licenses drugs produced through genetic engineering.

The creation of one centralized agency to fight abuse will eliminate much of the duplication and red tape required, for example, by separate divisions in state government for alcoholism and drug abuse.

As we all know, this centralized agency has been denied us, no matter how urgently we plead its virtues.

There is a sense of frustration that people don't have true local government, that all the power is concentrated in the mayor's office and other centralized agencies.

The objective was to convert the previously heterogeneous organization of Berlin's business promotion into a centralized agency.

I would suggest that Europol would be a very appropriate place to have this centralized agency capable of responding within 24 hours.