Robert Rennie Smith team leader, Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team (Arrochar, Dunbartonshire) - For services to mountain rescue.
And as New Yorkers lined up at the police barricades on Canal Street to cheer for their heroes -- firefighters and rescue workers returning from their shifts at the wreckage site -- they also cheered for the "animal heroes" -- handsome dogs who have been sniffing for survivors.
It could play an important role in cold climates for search-and-rescue, scientific exploration and expedition support.
For hours, the area around the crash site wasn't cordoned off as the mass of people packed the area, making if difficult to move -- including for rescue personnel.
Germany will not hear of throwing cash at the problem: no more for the euro-zone rescue fund, no Eurobonds and no open pressure on the ECB to buy more bonds.
Political cases make for big headlines--witness the rescue this summer of Ingrid Betancourt and three Northrop Grumman contractors held for years by insurgents in the Colombian jungle--but these are not a large fraction of the cases.
The RAF had been in the area since Friday night mounting its largest search-and-rescue operation for 40 years.
Falmouth, being the UK's centre for international maritime rescue co-ordination, checked the signal and who the vessel was registered to.
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Miliband plans to continue his role at the club despite deciding to move to the United States, where he will work for the International Rescue Committee -- a humanitarian relief and development organization.
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Now that Spain looks to be in need of a full scale bailout - which to be credible would have to involve around 500bn euros of emergency loans (see my post Spain moves nearer to full-scale rescue) - the underwriting burden for Germany is looking very heavy.
Those plans all sought to expand the universe of too-big-to-fail companies eligible for taxpayer rescue.
The surprise announcement that came out of those meetings, of a massive trillion-dollar rescue plan for troubled European countries brought instant relief.
In return, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund have committed to 240bn euros since 2010 in rescue loans for recession-hit Greece.
Ermotti has the benefit of being the rescue-CEO for UBS as he sets to turn it into a less risky, more boring banking operation.
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She supports Oxfam's six-point rescue plan for people in her situation.
He served as team leader of RAF Leuchars and Kinloss mountain rescue teams (MRTs) and worked for four years in the Kinloss air rescue co-ordination centre.
Minutes later, the search-and-rescue helicopter arrives for its refueling.
Or to put it another way, the ECB's support for Spain's banks is already around the levels in Ireland and Portugal at which the ECB felt that enough was enough, and put pressure on eurozone governments to provide a full-blown rescue programme for those countries.
The free-market economist and then Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, supported that massive US-IMF rescue package for Mexico, even though he had previously warned that protecting investors from the consequences of their mistakes would build up problems for the future, by encouraging institutions and investors to take excessive risks.
It is striking that investors are looking for reasons to make riskier investments (buying shares, for example), which most would see as a good sign - although this would be self-defeating if it provided false signals to European government heads that they need to be less bold and ambitious in constructing a three-pronged rescue package for the eurozone.
As search-and-rescue teams checked the conditions were safe enough for a diving team, fire-fighters combed the riverbank.
They're looking for a way to rescue a little-known sector of the financial world called the bond insurance business.
Meanwhile, they play for time and live off of rescue-fund band aids.
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As residents try to rebuild their lives, a non-for-profit charity called "Operation Photo Rescue" has been helping them to salvage treasured memories by restoring photographs damaged in the natural disaster.
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Anstruther helmsman Barry Gourlay was awarded the charity's bronze medal for his actions during a night-time rescue of two people from a motorboat driven on to rocks by high winds.
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So much for computer-telephony integration coming to the rescue.
Most of them are hugely dependent on borrowing from the European Central Bank and are profoundly grateful for the trillion euros of three-year rescue loans they have taken from the ECB in its LTRO.
The "haircut" - hugely unpopular in Cyprus - is a condition for the EU and IMF to grant a 10bn-euro bailout to rescue the Cypriot economy.
Asthmapolis, an organization that is just getting off the ground, connects we-ness to improving health for chronically ill patients by attaching a small GPS-enabled device to rescue inhalers.
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Last year it launched a search-and-rescue unit, Borstar, to criss-cross the region looking for immigrants in trouble.
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