• The FOL's modern, state-of-the-art fire and emergency response teams contribute to the safety of the Eloy Alfaro Airport and the Manta community.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: China displaces the U.S. at Ecuador's Manta Base

  • While investors have been through several cycles of increased stress followed by relief rallies in response to fire-fighting by policymakers, through it all the crisis has intensified.

    FORBES: How Savvy, Rich Investors Are Preparing For More Global Stress

  • Yet spending cuts are now resulting in "thousands of fire-fighters losing their jobs, dozens of fire stations closing, and response times going through the roof", he said.

    BBC: Communities questions

  • The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the meeting, arranged in response to a cease-fire called by Arafat on Tuesday, would not now take place within 24 hours as had been expected.

    CNN: Mideast meeting postponed after violence

  • He stated that the use of force will be legal only if it is "proportional", which means that "it must have as its objective the enforcement of the terms of the cease-fire", must be "a proportionate response" to the objective of securing compliance with Iraq's disarmament obligations" and "be limited to what is necessary to achieve that objective.

    BBC: British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith

  • Holbrooke's mission is in response to a series of rapid-fire Kremlin volleys begun by President Boris Yeltsin last week.

    CNN: Holbrooke heads to Moscow

  • Marco Iacoboni, a lab director at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, says when people see a smile, so-called mirror neurons fire in their brain and evoke a similar neural response as if they were smiling themselves.

    WSJ: Stress-Busting Smiles

  • Turning to international news, state television and major newspapers say the Chinese foreign ministry supports a "prudent" and "moderate" UN Security Council response to North Korea amid its threats to nullify a 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War.

    BBC: China media: Wen's mixed legacy

  • The idea has also been backed local MPs and by the fire service, which says response times could be improved and lives saved by adding extra slip-roads.

    BBC: Motorway bridge

  • Ankara has tried not to escalate tensions over the past year in response to events that have included the deaths of Turkish citizens in cross-border artillery fire, a car bomb in February that killed 14 people on the border and the shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syrian antiaircraft guns.

    WSJ: Turkey Blames Syria for Bombing

  • The Fire Department of New York today doesn't count any call time in its response analysis, a change from 2008 and earlier, when it included the time during which fire-dispatch staffers handled the call.

    WSJ: All Heat, No Light, in Fire Data

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