Niederauer will look over NYSE's cash equities operations, including institutional and member firm group sales and client services for both the exchange floor and the electronic network acquired in last year's merger with Archipelago Holdings.

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Rachleff is a former venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital and has extensive experience as a board member of institutional investment funds.

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David Penchyna, leader of the energy committee in the Mexican Senate and a member of Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has hedged his bets.

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What's more, it would have done nothing to alter the simple fact that the international effectiveness of the Union depends, ultimately, on its member states rather than any new institutional theology in Brussels.

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Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is a core agenda item of the EAS. The United States has a strong record of working with EAS member countries in disaster preparedness and institutional strengthening, and of bringing a unique set of capabilities, skills, and expertise in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

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