However, the odd thing is that, despite the success of efforts so far, and the likely success of future efforts, there is no official plan in place for dealing with any hazardous asteroid that is found to be on a collision course with Earth.
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Washington (CNN) -- When the nation's top transportation security official announced a plan to allow some small knives on planes, he spoke to a group receptive to his message: international aviation folks that already allow knives.
The senior administration official said this plan allows for "a sizable number of U.S. forces to support the Afghans for two additional fighting seasons before they are fully responsible for their own security" at the beginning of 2015.
"Now that the plan is official, we are working with MDA (Missile Defense Agency) to review all costs, " he said.
Lehrman (with whom this writer is professionally associated via American Principles Project and the Lehrman Institute) has provided with The True Gold Standard: A Monetary Reform Plan Without Official Reserve Currencies.
Some people have been asking me what I think of the gold standard proposal by Lewis Lehrman, as expressed in his most recent book The True Gold Standard: A Monetary Reform Plan Without Official Reserve Currencies.
At the beginning of the month, the Federal Housing Finance Agency took the first official step in a plan circulating since the fall: allowing investors to buy pools of foreclosed homes backed by the government and turn them into rental units.
One cornerstone of official housing policy is a plan to build about 120, 000 homes in the Thames Gateway to the east of London.
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Alongside this rapid reaction force, said a UN official, a broad political plan to bring stability to the region is set to be signed on the side-lines of the AU summit in Addis Ababa by the leaders of the DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Tanzania and South Africa.
But Nokia says it owns key patents that define parts of VP8 and has filed an official objection to Google's plan.
The US has objected to Antigua's plan saying it amounted to official "piracy" of intellectual property.
"This is a substantial down payment for health-care reform, " one senior administration official said of the president's plan.
The government's plan, outlined in an official report, was welcomed by the Association of Directors of Social Work in Scotland.
Another UNHCR official, Stella Nanou, welcomed Greece's plan to reinstate an asylum appeals board.
One official told the Associated Press that the new Cypriot plan would include "some form" of Russian help, but did not elaborate.
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Efforts have continued to broker a full ceasefire - a senior Israeli official is in Cairo to hear details of a plan put forward by Egypt and France.
Ultimately, the sides settled upon a plan proposed by the NFL, wherein the current officials will retain the defined benefit pension plan until 2016, or until the official earns 20 years of service.
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It is the first official FA reaction since the Premier League floated its global plan to start in 2010-11.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a White House official as saying Mr Obama would not present a specific plan for the Middle East at his meeting with Mr Netanyahu on Monday.
Despite official reluctance to push a national scheme, the Manchester plan suggests that the government is still committed to road pricing, if not for the country as a whole then at least for its big cities.
As former Clinton Treasury official Brad DeLong said, "President Obama has a plan for dealing with our cyclical unemployment crisis, " but Romney does not.
Many U.S.-bound students plan the calendar year around the six or seven official dates for the SAT, an abbreviation for Scholastic Aptitude Test, and the supplementary SAT subject tests because not all sections are offered every time.
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As one government official told The Jerusalem Post, Israel will "not dismiss" the plan.
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As one official put it to me, "you can't have a convincing plan without reducing Greek debt".
"This is not the type of mission that you plan and execute overnight, it's just not, " the official said.
When the Simpson-Bowles plan emerged in darkest December two years ago, it was routinely ignored by official Washington.
But Ms Casey soon discovered a big problem: Mattel's official sales forecasts were so high that managers, who were meant to use them to plan production, routinely ignored the numbers.
The top Democratic candidates for president plan to visit Harvard this fall, said David Gergen, a former senior official in the Reagan and Clinton administrations now at the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
They also plan to discuss efforts to prevent future terrorist attacks in their meetings there, the official added.
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