Initials in the appropriate approvals section ensure that such additions have been properly authorized and advised to the cost accountant.

Marketspan officials said that the review would focus on what compensation was awarded and whether it was properly authorized and disclosed.

Ms. Torres, who pushed for the investigation into the council's spending practices, said she believed her trips had been properly authorized.

Such a resolution, when certified by the corporation's secretary, gives assurance to the other side of the transaction that the sale was properly authorized.

I said, 'I am not certain that these men are properly authorized.

This was properly authorized, and I was given a duplicate to take with me to the consulate in Florence.

According to the report, a police investigation of a radical black group, the New York Eight, was properly authorized.

A Hughes spokeswoman said the transfer was properly authorized by the Commerce Department.

In a handful of cases, it said, the bureau conducted physical searches that had not been properly authorized.

"I'll hold talks with the cleaning lady, if she's properly authorized."