The White House didn't provide details concerning whether the SBA's current administrator, Karen Mills, would be granted a higher authority or additional responsibilities as a result of her elevated position.

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As a result, FEMA was elevated to a cabinet-level agency in 1993, and James Lee Witt was named director.

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Obama, on the other hand, inherited two ongoing wars and as a result has kept military spending at elevated levels.

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As a result, the child may go on to have a permanently elevated level of stress, with its adverse implications for physical and psychological health.

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Much of this was the result of ongoing economic weakness in the developed world, although elevated local silver prices also led to lower demand in price-sensitive markets such as India, the report said.

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Since rising air causes clouds to form (the risen air eventually cools to the temperature of its elevated surroundings, and any water vapour it contains thus condenses), the result would be more rain than would fall in the absence of the artificial aerosols.

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