Each metropolitan county had a county council providing limited strategic services, such as public transport and planning, from 1974 to 1986.

The Institute provides a wide range of strategic services.

It performs what are somewhat euphemistically known as strategic services for the government.

He said he believed there were enough progressive companies in the local market to sustain him as a consultant offering research and strategic services.

But aid given to governments purely to buy strategic services, without any sensible economic conditions attached, merely keeps bad rulers in office.

It provides trading, strategic and other miscellaneous services in these sectors.

He became chief of the bureau's strategic services in 1982.

David Bennahum, 31, a writer and new-media consultant, was named to the new post of executive vice president for strategic services.

The Regional council was to administer "strategic services" such as town planning, traffic management, education, fire and ambulance services.

But the war carried him into strategic services, for which he was chief of military intelligence in London, Paris and Germany.