Further into this space, wide, bleached-wood steps lead to a flat platform level that can be topped with cushions and used as beds.

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The first session of the IPBES plenary meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3-7 October 2011, has made important steps forward in establishing and operationalizing the platform.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Passengers using the London-bound trains need to use steps and an underpass to get to the platform.

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The Bonn meeting will aim to agree on the remaining rules of procedures for the platform, elect Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel members, and agree on the next steps by which the IPBES work programme can become operational as soon as possible.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

Clear and proactive steps can be taken to ensure that Say on Pay becomes a useful communication platform between companies and their investors, and nothing more.

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If he steps forward and starts putting real specifics on the table for some of the hard choices and uses his platform to explain to the country why it is so important not to duck from these issues as we work to get the economy back on track, his speech will have been a great start to a serious effort.

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