Leading practices encourage a high level of project management discipline and fast execution of the integration plan.

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Two smaller rebel groups have not agreed to the plan, which has been the focus of intense high-level negotiations between the warring factions, leaders of the African Union, and western diplomats.

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The Bush administration had interfered with Plan B decisions, too, but never at so high a level.

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At present, the plan is for it to be reprocessed using solvents and chemical processes to separate it into high-level and low-level components.

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