This meeting was organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is co-hosted by the Florida Energy and Climate Commission and the Miami-Dade County Office of Sustainability.

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Meanwhile, Bush administration officials have been growing increasingly concerned about possible infiltration of Western companies and financial markets by suspected organized-crime figures with ties to the Russian government, according to administration officials, lawmakers and law-enforcement officials.

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The initial impression is that the suspect was acting alone and did not have any formal connections to organized terrorist groups, the U.S. administration official said.

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The meeting was organized by young leaders, for young leaders, and featured senior administration officials who discussed innovative White House public-private partnership initiatives such as Educate to Innovate, the Recovery Act, and the Let's Move Partnership for a Healthier America.

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The Bush Administration has created the Department of Homeland Security, while the Defense Department has organized a new Northern Command in which for the first time a combatant commander has the entire continental United States within his area of responsibility.

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His administration has sued gun manufacturers, claiming they recklessly flood the market with cheap pistols and organized stings against out-of-state firearms dealers he claimed were fueling the city's illegal gun trade.

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