During most of his professional life, Giuliani has situated himself at the center of a tight-knit group of associates, almost all of them white and male, whose foremost attribute is devotion to him.
At the youth center a group of young people, some of whom are HIV-positive, will provide mentoring, education and support to their peers.
Yet at the center of the group was a fragile-looking, diminutive woman in a crisp white shalwar kameez, a neat black jacket, and heavy tortoiseshell spectacles, named Asma Jilani Jahangir.
In Tirin Kot, we parked in the traffic circle at the center of town, where a large group of turbaned and bearded young men had gathered, waiting for opium farmers to come along and hire them as day laborers.
Soldiers tried to come to the aid of the overwhelmed Christians, but could do little more than guard the neighborhood and evacuate a group of the Ambonese from a nearby shopping center.
But Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit group, said confirmed cases of abuse have declined over the past 20 years, because perpetrators are being more aggressively identified, imprisoned and monitored through sex-offender registries.
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They are "a symbol of economic health and a vibrant community, " says Jennifer Tescher, head of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, a research group that focuses on people without a banking relationship.
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Citing the Syria Violations Documentation Center, a network of Syrian activists, the group said at least 1, 176 children have been killed since February 2011.
The founder of New York Global Group, Benjamin Wey, has been at the center of bringing a number of Chinese companies public.
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On September 19, a group of students took over a public school in the historic center of Guatemala City, in protest of the education reform.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition lobby group in Washington DC, said there was a lack of evidence.
At the center the room, a culturally diverse group of children sit around a table on rainbow-colored beanbag chairs, flitting through the new app.
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The Pew Research Center poll also finds that a large group of younger adults who tend to be more open to gay rights is driving the numbers upward.
"Everything we do is a balance of risks and benefits for the infant, and we have to be vigilant to make sure we are not making things worse, " says Dan L. Ellsbury, director of the Center for Research, Education and Quality at Pediatrix Medical Group, a large neonatal physicians group and a unit of Mednax Inc.
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As a distinguished group of national security experts observed in a new book published by the Center for Security Policy, titled Shariah: The Threat to America, we must be concerned about more than just the threat of violent jihad.
"People forget that there are two sides to screening, " says Dr. Barbara Yawn, director of research at Olmstead Medical Center and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed group of health care professionals that study and evaluate health screens.
Last year he bought a radiation center in Santa Monica, Calif. run by Michael Steinberg, a member of an influential trade group that advises Medicare on how to set rates for the latest technologies.
Tang Dagang, director of the Vehicle Emission Control Center, a policy research group also affiliated with the ministry, said pressure increased last year to tighten diesel fuel standards after the State Council, or cabinet, announced stricter air-quality rules.
The rivalry peaked a couple of years ago, when Broward reportedly poached a Carnival Cruise call center and a Delta Air Lines reservations group.
The firm at the center of the storm, American International Group, had only a minor deposit-taking operation.
They might be surprised then by a recent survey out of Brown University, which found a 12 percent increase in performance for a randomly selected group of 255 call center employees who volunteered to work from home.
"Many people in Bahrain no longer see Formula One as a sport, but as an organization which supports a repressive regime, " said a protest group comprised of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Press Association, the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights and the Campaign Against Arms Trade.
Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy, a non-profit policy group which addresses, among other issues, the nexus between national security and global finance.
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The "scale is so much bolder than things we've seen, " said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington nonprofit group.
Shortly after, members of the group led a protest toward the Xcel Center where the Republican convention was underway before being dispersed by police with tear gas.
"These workers sew the clothes that earn the country foreign currency, so they deserve better, " said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, a non-profit group.
"When you've tried everything, try Henry George, " says Joshua Vincent, a historian and statistician who runs a Georgist group called the Center for the Study of Economics in the house where Henry George was born in Philadelphia.
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Only a fraction of this group takes advantage of the center's free counseling.
The Center for Security Policy today issued a critical appraisal of the priorities of the Group of Seven industrialized countries in placing the economic and financial needs of the Warsaw Pact countries increasingly ahead of those of the Latin American debtor nations in certain areas.
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