The report gives an account of FEMA's recent history and response to Katrina, covering ground that has been well-plowed in recent months, although adding some details.
All in all, we are confronting the largest environmental disaster in our history with the largest environmental response and recovery effort in our history.
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But we're also focusing on preparedness and response so that history does not repeat itself.
Mr Gove's speech about the "infantilisation" of history has prompted an angry response from the Historical Association, which accused the education secretary of an "ill-researched attack".
And when I say this is the largest response of its kind in American history, I mean it.
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It may be why -- as I pointed out in response to another question, given the history of assertions of privilege of this kind in the last 30 years, this President is asserting it for the first time at the latest point of any history in those -- at the latest point in his term of any President in those past 30 years.
In short, this is the largest response to an environmental disaster of this kind in the history of our country.
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This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, said Dr Nagata.
This response to modernity and to Jews was not predetermined by Egyptian history or culture.
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These living traditions are constantly recreated by communities in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history.
Mr. Holloway and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs introduced the new flood-zone map Friday as part of the city's Hurricane Sandy After Action report, an overview of the emergency response to one of the worst storms in New York City's history.
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Privacy International denied that accusation in an open letter to Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, saying that Google's response stemmed from "sour grapes" and citing the privacy group's history of criticizing Microsoft policies.
The longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history, Hastert suffered back-to-back blows, first when he offered a less than cogent response to what the leadership knew about Mark Foley's (R-FL) predilection for teenage congressional pages, and then on Election Day, when the GOP lost some 29 seats (and the majority as well).
Witt's team clearly was also successful with the sixth step, Produce Short-Term Wins, and at least to some extent the seventh, Don't Let Up--as evidenced by FEMA's successful response to hundreds of disasters, including the most costly flood and earthquake in the nation's history to that time as well as multiple serious hurricanes.
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