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authorize

verb as in permit, allow

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“Congress should adopt a federal framework that allows states to authorize betting on professional sports,” Silver wrote in a New York Times opinion piece in 2014, “subject to strict regulatory requirements and technological safeguards.”

Her message to such immigrants was to not sign documents to authorize deportation.

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But while annuities can now be included as an option in retirement plans, they legally aren’t allowed to be an employer-suggested default; Congress still has to authorize it.

That same year, Puech signed a sweeping agreement authorizing Freymond not merely to manage but also to dispose of his assets, according to French investigators.

“A DCM authorizes us, under the oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to design and create markets for exchange-listed derivatives in the U.S.,” the press release said.

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