What does AO stand for?

Functionalities enhanced by Monroe include: * Improved Lines of Accounting (LOA) management; * Redesigned Budget Module to improve usability; * New "Return to List" navigation button to simplify review of multiple documents; * Improved Group Travel processing; * New Constructive Travel process to facilitate transportation calculations and allow Authorizing Officials (AO) to impose reimbursement limits; * Improved Personal Leave on Travel functionality; * Improved accountability for Foreign Military Sales (FMS) funded travel; * Improved system audits; and * Enhanced Defense Travel Administrator (DTA) maintenance features.

The school board for the Shoreline School District north of Seattle unanimously approved a measure Monday night authorizing officials to begin a sponsor search.

But they failed to act on a recommendation made by the Lambeth Commission for a moratorium on consecrating gay bishops who are in same-sex relationships and on authorizing official prayer services for same-sex blessings, saying they did not wish to "act in haste.

DTS will provide electronic connectivity among the following entities in the travel process -- the traveler, the traveler's authorizing official, the service and agency accounting and disbursing systems, the local comptroller's budget, the commercial travel services provider, the certifying official, the commercial bank card service, and the electronic archive.

The directive notes that the Army secretary is required to use military aircraft for travel on official business but specifies that authorizing officials "shall ensure that an official, rather than personal, purpose is served" by the travel.

OTR has also expanded the agreement, authorizing Official Payments to begin accepting payments made by electronic check.

Late in the afternoon, the high court handed Gore a modest victory, authorizing officials in Palm Beach and Broward counties to recount ballots by hand.

Richardson also recommended unspecified disciplinary action against Terry Craig, another counterintelligence official at Los Alamos, saying Craig had failed to inform the FBI in 1996 that Lee had signed a waiver authorizing officials to search his computer.