As part of their preparatory work for the summit, finance ministers, when they met in Halifax, also discussed another much-heralded policy initiative, first introduced in 1999: the provision of debt relief to the poorest developing countries, known as HIPC.

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Current collaboration with DIVERSITAS includes common preparatory work for the first plenary of the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

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The sketch, a preparatory drawing for one of the vertical box assemblages that were a frequent theme of Judd's work at the time, could easily be mistaken for a floor plan of the building, a series of stacked volumes one atop the other.

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This Preparation Bill, which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales, also allows for "preparatory work for future phases of a high speed rail network at the appropriate time".

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This analysis work was complemented with other preparatory activities, in view of drafting the policy documents.

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The Interior Department granted the company permission to begin "certain limited preparatory activities" -- including work related to the installation of a blowout preventer -- on August 30.

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They said that the previous winter's extreme weather had been exacerbated by a shortage of grit and that local authorities needed to do more preparatory work to ensure that the situation is not repeated this winter.

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"Politics dictate that, for reasons we all understand, the coalition has said they are not going to make this decision before the election, " he said, explaining that his commission can do a lot of preparatory work.

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