Jim Adams
Jim Adams
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It shows the administration is working hard to be a leader on this issue. The U.S. will easily be the largest single donor.
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The European community has taken the lead in this and we expect to meet in Beijing in January. By then we hope to have specific proposals for the structure of a funding mechanism, ... It may well be that some countries are prepared to commit funds before then. But we hope by early next year to have that trust fund available.
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The costs of those activities will be by far lower than the massive costs we face if we don't meet this challenge today.
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The intention is then to be prepared to go out more aggressively to raise some money to deal with those gaps,
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We are broadly worried about trade in a globalize world, but two industries that would be particularly hit are tourism and agriculture.
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We've never had this type of situation on Lake Conroe, ... The whitecaps ran the full length of the lake. We had a failure of the rip-rap, right down to the soil.
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And when thinking about it, not everyone's an optimist quite yet.
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We are very pleased with the growth and progress in the Knoxville market. It's an attractive market. We like the business climate in Knoxville.
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There's not enough information to know how much to apply for.
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The thinking is that autistic kids have low absorption of nutrients, possibly because so many have inflammation of the digestive system. It just seems they need many more nutrients to get absorption at a decent level.
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Sometimes it's not worth buying the cheap stuff.
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Nobody's wishing for more tragedies or more crises, but if the world has a better ability to respond to those, I think that's a good thing.
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Like every issue, it has been actively discussed at the technical level and the point now is to get everyone in a room together to review what has been done.
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I can't overemphasize the importance of equipping ourselves to respond quickly and flexibly. As problems spread across countries and if new countries are confronted with the challenge, it will be terribly important that financing can respond to those changes,