And while we expressed concern at the time that Mr. Leung's policies on education, health care, land reform and the judiciary might eventually turn Hong Kong into just another Chinese city, he surprised us by advising Beijing against implementing a "patriotic education" curriculum in Hong Kong's state-funded schools, and we praised him for it.
Its promises of free health and education, land reform and jobs in state factories and offices did lift millions out of misery to mere poverty.
Topics that they discussed was land, health, education, employment, unemployment.
He said there had been "massive opposition" for health reasons and because the land was on greenbelt land.
Yet studies run into the unreliability of modelling future climatic effects and sometimes ignore changes in land use and health care.
This Congress did it all in one bill, and also enacted other big measures, such as an expansion of children's health insurance and a broad land-conservation law.
And we are taking one very special step to protect the health of every child in this land.
The Japanese researchers say they have found no evidence that they contaminated the land or affected the health of local people.
This began in 1993 when the city government sold 16 acres of land to a private health-care company for a hospital to serve a poor area in the west of Mexico City.
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He said money from the sale of the land would be reinvested in health services.
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Many palm oil producers have gone further, allocating up to 40% of their land to local farmers and boosting health care, entrepreneurship and education.
Women recruited now will have to undertake an initial health screening and then join in either a land-based aerobics or a pool-based aqua-aerobics programme.
This is a terrible, greedy, vicious cycle, with no regard to the health of the food produced, or the land being used to produce it.
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The 1999 budget reduces social and environmental spending, including health, education, sanitation, water supply, land reform and welfare programmes.
Big business -- namely, the gas industry -- is aggressively objecting to the allegation in "Promised Land" that fracking poses environmental and health risks.
They will have powers of government: in taxation, land use, family, social and health services, police, courts, schools (which they run already), language and culture.
Lawyers for the government and a private company owning the land said they were concerned about the health of the squatters if they are allowed to stay.
"If the bourgeoisie win, they are going to privatise health and education, they are going to take land from the Indians, the curse of Maracapana would come on you, " the candidate continued.
On the other hand, many Republicans, led by their intellectual lights at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, have long accepted--no, championed--the notion that unless people are forced to carry insurance, freeloaders who land in emergency rooms will cripple the health care system.
But the Public Health Trust Act 1875 already imposed a statutory trust over the land, giving priority to public access and recreation.
Likewise, the hunger for meat proteins is driving land farming to levels that can impinge on the health of man and beast.
This is helping local people send their kids to school, access health care, and continue to grow crops on the same land without having to de-forest and to move to new land.
DTI's plans will land on other government departments, especially the Department of Health, local authorities and other official sources.
Among the items on it will be general cleaning up, debilitated land, fleeing tourists and extra spending on emergency services and health care.
At the very least, then, Fat Land's original prediction that obesity "might" break our health care system seems optimistic.
The Watford Health Campus project on a 26.5 hectare site is designed to regenerate land between the club and the hospital.
But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
The United Nations recently raised concerns regarding the health and climatic impacts of particles emitted by vegetation fires in regions subject to land use changes and human driven deforestation such as South-East Asia, where they are responsible for 10, 800 premature deaths per year.
And as long as women and girls continue to suffer violence daily, are barred from owning land or running for office, are kept from schools and vital health services, and are unable to access credit and skills to run businesses and earn a living, our work will continue with increasing urgency.
But the marshy, urban land is not their natural habitat, and it exposes them to frequent health problems, especially eye and feet infections, cuts and parasites.
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