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At the time, the UN and some Western nations said that they would only consider a ruling by a court that genocide is taking place as authoritative.

As she astutely points out, it goes unmentioned in most of the supposedly authoritative cookbooks theoretically meant to tell Egyptian women the proper way to cook for the nation’s benefit.

A record number of the world’s top money managers now say stocks are overvalued, according to an authoritative new report.

Some of Mr. Fatsis’ new colleagues observed that the very notion of authoritative repositories of information had come to seem archaic; now “expertise was ceasing to matter” and “institutions were growing suspect.”

Some former CDC leaders said a shift away from a central, authoritative voice in public health could cause confusion.