So the report calls on the Europeans, slow to open their purses (America spends more on co-operative threat-reduction in a year than Europeans have over the past ten, points out one impatient American official), to pay for the work at Russia's civilian nuclear sites, leaving America free to hurry up work at trickier military ones.

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The GOP letter said the offer is based on a framework proposed last year by Erskine Bowles, a Democrat and one-time White House chief of staff who co-chaired a bipartisan deficit reduction panel appointed by Obama in 2010.

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President Vladimir Putin is ready to see Russia co-operate more in such threat-reduction efforts.

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Senator Carl Levin is co-sponsoring an amendment to begin a reduction and phased pull-out of troops in 120 days.

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The co-chairs of the ill-fated deficit reduction supercommittee, Senator Patty Murray and Representative Jeb Hensarling, did not know each other before being given 10 weeks to solve the entire federal deficit problem.

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But these pioneers also saw strong financial rewards from embracing social technologies: Cost reduction, operational efficiency, faster innovation through co-creation, and increased customer satisfaction.

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Patty Murray (D-WA), who will be the Democratic co-chair of the panel, formally known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

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Indeed greater co-ordination is now required, if the Bank's plan for a comprehensive poverty reduction and growth strategy is to be adopted in individual countries.

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These subjects equip learners with social skills necessary not only for peaceful co-existence and non-violent conflict resolution or management but also for community development and poverty reduction.

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"We look forward, under these agreements, to the continued reduction in U.S. forces and the normalization of bilateral relations as two sovereign and co-equal nations, " they said.

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"We look forward, under these agreements, to the continued reduction in U.S. forces and the normalization of bilateral relations as two sovereign and co-equal nations, " the two said in their statement.

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