But the most pressing problems were in Texas, where Ike made landfall on September 13th.
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In Europe, government officials habitually disappear for August vacations regardless of any pressing problems.
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But, of course, this is only a start - immediate action to deal with the most pressing problems.
Mr Mandel says it will take big companies to solve America's most pressing problems in health care and education.
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So you're focused on addressing the pressing problems we face today, but you've got a vision for your city.
Our citizens are asking themselves if Europe can really solve their most pressing problems and create jobs and prosperity.
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In the immediate future, however, there are more pressing problems to tackle.
One of the most pressing problems in our education system today is the high number of students who do not complete high school.
The organisations agreed three statements on tackling Earth's most pressing problems.
Prizes have historically been used to solve difficult and pressing problems.
Americans and the Hispanic community deserve better and I urge my colleagues of both parties to work together for a bi-partisan solution to solve our most pressing problems.
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In light of this, one might rightly ask whether the protection of historical sites should be much of a priority, especially when more pressing problems require our attention.
Yet weariness of it, a change of American leadership, the emergence of other pressing problems and a widespread suspicion that the terrorists' capability was exaggerated have made it less prominent.
For the past year a caretaker cabinet has kept things ticking over, he says, but it has been unable to make inroads on pressing problems such as the swelling deficit.
Those in favour of the change reckon that putting centralised functions such as accounting, insurance-licensing and claims-handling into a listed company will help to solve some of Lloyd's most pressing problems.
Dark energy is one of the most pressing problems in astrophysics today and, given its role in identifying the problem, you would have thought it would be the US announcing such a mission.
Still, Indonesia's second Fund deal signed in January was criticized for largely ignoring the most pressing problems of rupiah free-fall and crushing foreign debt, which by then were dragging down banks and firms.
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2004 with the mission of providing leadership computing for scientists working on some of the world's most pressing problems.
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The unresolved border issue compounds other pressing problems.
Last February, I was scheduled to see her and other civil rights leaders to discuss the pressing problems of unemployment -- Reverend Sharpton, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, Marc Morial of the National Urban League.
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Anyway, he has more pressing problems.
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The city has some pressing problems.
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He is frankly partisan, a multilateralist who sees the unilateralism of Mr Bush's presidency as a sorry interruption in history's inexorable progress towards a more consensual world in which going it alone can no longer answer pressing problems such as nuclear proliferation and climate change.
Failing to appreciate how greatly the ebb and flow of commerce depends upon an efficient and safe aviation system, and possibly insensitive to the aggressive competition from foreign aerospace manufacturers seeking advances in ATC modernization, they argue there are more pressing problems that demand attention and dollars.
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He can lead Americans of all races, religions, and persuasions, from students at Oral Roberts University to urban artists and musicians from the other side of the tracks in Detroit, in locking arms and marching together in a shared desire to solve our pressing problems in new and creative ways.
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Its unseemly ties with the country's famously conservative bureaucracy have prevented it from tackling Japan's pressing social problems.
Fears of Big Brother aside, the use of biometrics in air travel faces other more pressing logistical problems.
Scalable, self-funding solutions are then able to actually solve the pressing social problems we face while driving company growth and profitability.
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We cannot fix the most pressing internal problems of America, until we fix the problems of parents, families and communities in America.
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