Following the meeting, the White House announced several new measures the Administration is implementing to help those impacted by the drought, including providing additional assistance for livestock and crop producers, increasing the capacity for lending to small businesses, and waiving certain requirements on trucks helping to provide relief.
The sources said the administration also will embrace new measures, both short-term and long-term, designed to improve cockpit security.
The administration has also signalled further measures to weaken some environmental protection legislation, and to toughen up legislation on welfare reform.
Labour, which took control of Sheffield Council in May, said the budget savings were originally put forward by the Liberal Democrat administration in March when saving measures were introduced.
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The incident raised questions that the Obama administration must answer about airline security measures and our ability to identify potential terrorists.
He pledged that the airline would continue to work with the federal Transportation Security Administration to quickly implement new security measures promptly.
The administration continues to push for these measures that you say have bipartisan support, but the way of paying for them is not.
Still, the Administration shied away from more radical measures.
Seven years after the commitment of combat troops, that inflation was still very much alive and was forcing a successor Administration into radical, desperate economic measures in order to restore some financial balance.
There are strong arguments against this sort of assisted suicide, whether it takes the form of the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or of more active measures such as the administration of lethal injections.
James has already demonstrated his generosity this week by reportedly being a leading figure in a group of Pompey players who have agreed to cover the wages of four club staff members, who would otherwise have been laid off as part of the administration-enforced cost-cutting measures at Fratton Park.
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said this week that her administration had no plans to take any new measures against a rising currency.
An official with the Transportation Security Administration told CNN there will be increased security measures taken on international flights to the United States.
To stave off a bailout, Rajoy's administration has been forced to implement harsh austerity measures to keep government borrowing costs sustainable while ensuring larger eurozone partners, such as Germany, remain onside.
Washington (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration extended through at least Wednesday heightened security measures in the aftermath of a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner, the agency said.
For my administration, it meant a series of emergency measures that I would not have undertaken under normal circumstances, but that were necessary to stop our economy from falling off a cliff.
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Now that the administration has reviewed that situation and implemented new safety measures, he said that exploration can go on.
Given the unpalatability of some of the measures, one aim of the new administration is to renegotiate with the IMF.
The Bush administration is already discussing with Congress plans for further measures to boost the economy, including tax cuts and more interest rate reductions.
The Obama administration must chose: Will it commit to measures to ensure the future viability of America's deterrent, or risk defeat of its arms control agenda at the hands of forty-one Senators who understand that nothing less is acceptable?
The United States feels that it has taken major steps over the first year or so of the Obama administration to enable it to call for stronger enforcement measures against states that break the rules of the world's nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Such draconic measures will likely prove too much for the next administration and it will try to kick the can down the road to the next administration.
Washington (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday extended through at least the weekend heightened security measures in the aftermath of a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner, the agency said.
"For example, pocketing measures that were, for all intents and purposes, already underway by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, demonstrates the Administration's determination to avoid its own economic and financial measures, " Gaffney added.
Slower economy growth will make it harder for the administration of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to implement austerity measures, rein in deficits, and move forward with structural reform. (Read As Europe And The U.S. March Toward Recession, Markets Are Waiting For Godot).
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The Obama administration beat back an attempt in Congress in December to overturn its easing measures, but shows no sign of wanting to open up further.
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And in some ways, by many other measures, it's one of the most important accomplishments of this administration, which is that we can significantly reduce our reliance on foreign oil because of those increased standards.
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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the Clinton administration, working with Israel, is developing "a parallel process" in which security measures by the Palestinians would be coordinated with an Israeli pullback on the West Bank.
The administration has maintained that financial constraints have plagued the institution for decades, and years of stopgap measures like property sales and loans have been used to maintain the scholarship amid ever-rising costs.
For this gamble to pay the sorts of long-term returns the Bush Administration hopes for, however, it must be rooted in hard-headed realism, based on transparency and practical measures.
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