Franks, who would soon retire and be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said he ordered the transition to force the Pentagon to get leaders into the field to work with civilian occupation officials.
The prizes for literature and peace will be awarded later in the week, with the economics prize to be announced on Monday.
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Clinton's win won't do much to cut into Obama's lead: West Virginia had just 28 delegates at stake, and those will be awarded proportionately.
The Ministry of Education issued a decree establishing an official seal of approval and two types of certificate to be awarded to states and municipalities who succeed in providing good and effective basic education, including youth and adult literacy programmes.
This year's chemistry prize will be announced on Wednesday, with the literature and peace prizes to be awarded later in the week.
All entries must be submitted in the name of an individual person and prizes can only be awarded to the person whose name is on a winning entry.
The peace prize is the last of the awards to be announced this week and the Riksbank prize will be awarded Monday.
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It took a century for the nation of tinkerers and basement inventors to be awarded the first million patents.
Franklin died of cancer and the prize cannot be awarded posthumously so she never got to share in the glory.
And before students will be awarded credit, they will have to pass a test to prove they have mastered the material.
Books will be published and doctorates awarded on research into how a country that managed to become a member of the euro zone, that staged a very successful Olympic Games in 2004, which has a talented, well-educated and industrious population, should fall so low, so fast.
"The department must reconsider the decision on the medals and a state medal should be awarded, " he said.
The chosen place will succeed Londonderry, which is the City of Culture for 2013 and the first place to be awarded the title.
It is the 100th year the prize will be awarded, and the first time that any Nobel in the sciences has gone to more than one woman.
After the series wrapped, a decision from MLG and Riot disqualified both Curse and Dignitas from first and second place, and no prize money would be awarded to either.
The Palme d'Or wasn't involved in the theft and is still set to be awarded on May 26 at the end of the festival to the winner of the Best Film prize, according to a spokeswoman for the festival organizers.
We may not know by the end of 2011 whether LA is going to be awarded an NFL franchise by 2015, but we may know where the team will be located if and when the city is awarded a team.
Drugs that proved comparatively effective would be awarded pricing premiums and sliding patent exclusivity.
Comedian and actor Lenny Henry is to be awarded the freedom of his home town of Dudley.
Tokyo has promised a well-funded, well-organised and safe games, should it be awarded the Olympics for 2020.
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By applying the test, points would be awarded to games and productions giving them a "cultural value" score.
The latest winner of the ITV1 singing show will be crowned on Sunday and awarded a sought-after recording contract.
This summer's contracts are expected to be awarded next week and the ECB is likely to stick to an elite squad of 12.
In a statement, the 41-year-old said he had been surprised to be awarded the OBE and that it "hadn't seemed real until today".
Good proposals that will allow young people to become business, social capital, or independent contractors will be reviewed, awarded and tweaked by this large social network.
The Irish have formerly submitted their bid along with Scotland and are among the favourites to be awarded the finals when the decision is announced in December.
The conditional status would be removed and the green card awarded after two years if the individual satisfied the terms of the new EB-6 (employment-based 6th preference) visa by creating the required jobs.
Oh, and you can't enter more than once, and as usual, prizes can only be awarded to American residents.
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