Nynex will be consolidating several departments spread among an office building on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan and three Westchester buildings.

To avoid new taxes, his $14 billion budget would consolidate departments and lay off workers.

That meant privatizing some county services, eliminating 800 jobs, consolidating departments and reducing travel, meal and car expenses.

Now hospitals are beginning to cut administrative costs, eliminate highly paid administrators and consolidate departments, he said.

That system is withering, Professor Kastan said, as universities are forced to consolidate departments.

President Obama wants to cut through the bureaucratic mess and consolidate unnecessary departments.

National agencies with offices throughout the country could very well consolidate certain departments, such as media, at just one office to profit from economies of scale, he said.

Raphael House enabled the Tuck firm to consolidate their various offices and departments that had spread throughout various Parts of the city.

He has also shown interest in government reform and fiscal accountability, and supported the [City Manager]'s efforts to consolidate departments.

He consolidated previously independent departments and replaced the old patronage system with a merit system.