But in the case of smaller businesses in struggling industries with a large concentration of older executives in the plan, like Pacific Western, keeping a plan might seem like more trouble than it is worth.

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The Democratic National Committee's fund-raising strategy known as the National Asian Pacific American Campaign Plan was included among 7, 000 pages of records released this week.

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Any suits would be filed against the Habitat Conservation Plan, which would make Pacific Lumber and the state and federal governments co-defendants.

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Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.

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At the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we recently issued our plan for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health (AANHPI) Health.

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The first concerns a plan to export gas via a pipeline to the Pacific coast.

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Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific airline denied local reports that it was considering a cost-cutting plan to ground all flights as the region's carriers feel the effects of plummeting passenger numbers.

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The song, devised by ad agency BBH Asia-Pacific and spread via social media, is part of Mentos's plan to launch a special "I Heart SG" pack of their signature mints for this year's National Day.

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain is touting his plan to combat global warming as he stumps for votes this week in the Pacific Northwest.

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For the U.S., the revision of the realignment plan comes at a time when the nation is reinforcing its defense strategy in the Asia-Pacific region and winding down operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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