powers

His first novel, 1974’s “Carrie,” centers on a heroine whose telekinetic powers awaken with the onset of her first menstrual period, which, from one lens, could be viewed as empowering.

Veering from its long focus on preserving wildlands, the Legislature created the state’s first conservancy and a state-county joint powers authority to acquire open space in the middle of a city.

He gambled that voters would overlook the cost of a special election — close to $300 million — and agree to hand back the line-drawing powers they seized from Sacramento insiders and politicians who put their own interests first.

When the devolved government in Scotland was given more tax raising powers nearly a decade ago, an agreement called the Fiscal Framework was agreed setting out how the new system would work.

It means the UK government is able to deduct funds from the block grant that it estimates it would have received if tax-raising powers were not devolved.