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chief authority

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See: director, principal


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The state's strong chief law grants a fire chief authority to hire and fire firefighters, appoint captains and deputy chiefs, buy equipment and set policy and regulations for the department.
No systematic expression of this myth is known from Egyptian sources, our chief authority in this respect being Plutarch in his ''On Isis and Osiris''; frequent allusions, however, occur in Egyptian texts of all periods which show that Plutarch''s account agrees essentially with the Egyptian belief.
As the chief authority in the archdiocese, answerable only to the Pope, an archbishop really can change things, and thus an imminent transition rekindles long-frustrated hopes.
 
 
 
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