Demand for infrastructure is set to increase, fuelled by population growth, technological progress, climate change and congestion.
Assistant Commerce Secretary Nancy Victory declared that the department was "frankly disappointed" at the slow progress of Icann change.
The government has made real progress on climate change with its pledge that new homes will be "zero carbon" by 2016, the report said, but needs to offset carbon from now until then by drastically reducing emissions from existing homes.
Based in part on numerous listening sessions and public outreach events with a wide range of stakeholders, "Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, " highlights the progress toward implementing those recommendations.
We are steadily making progress and making real change in moving this country forward.
For Democrats in the House and Senate and across America, this is the Congress of hope, change and progress.
The only delay to affect their progress was a gearbox change after 11 hours, but the repairs took less than 10 minutes.
So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.
Is any -- when you talk about momentum or progress, has there been any momentum or progress getting them to change their minds?
"I think Saudi women really have a great opportunity and a window for change and progress that we really need to take advantage of, " she said.
His insight helped inspire Lawrence Lessig's Harvard-based anti-corruption campaign ( Rootstrikers) and two groundbreaking progressive grass-root organizations ( Demand Progress and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee).
Though Elkay knew fountains had to change, progress was slow.
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Under that bargain, the poor countries were to have the Millennium Development Goals reaffirmed, along with promises of more aid and debt relief, a pledge to tackle climate change and progress on disarmament.
This new UNESCO-UNU book underlines the critical role that indigenous peoples and local communities can play in ongoing international efforts to monitor the progress of global climate change impacts and to develop capacities to respond.
We've made progress in confronting climate change.
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"It is a language for figuring out what gets in the way of change and progress, " says Todd Pierce, former CIO of biotechnology company Genentech, who says it helped his management team resolve core issues in a matter of hours.
Because what I'm interested is not just change for the sake of change, but progress.
They took photos of their progress, seeing a visible change each month as they weighed in.
The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.
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All this makes it highly unlikely, by the way, that there will be any progress on a climate-change bill in time for December's global meeting in Copenhagen.
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Further progress may generate profound economic change, they say.
General PETER PACE (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff): We need to give ourselves a good honest scrub about what is working and what is not working, what are the impediments to progress and what should we change about the way we're doing it to ensure that we get to the objective that we've set for ourselves.
Progress will be uneven, and change will come differently to different countries.
And while some actions may not seem all that significant, when you take any action that serves your greatest good, it sends a message to your sub-conscious that you are still in the game, and that change is still in progress (however slowly).
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Actual plan implementation is delegated to managers with the boss periodically meeting to monitor progress and modify the plan as circumstances change.
This progress did not come easily and we know that progress on this particular aspect of climate change negotiations is not enough.
Now, following an unusual apology to users, Apple startlingly unplugs one of its Android lawsuits against a competitor, and a profound personality change seems to be in progress.
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It is also more efficient for the doctor who already knows the patient to order the fever work-up, talk to the family, or assess progress and the potential need for a change in the treatment.
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We are steadily making progress, and moving forward and making real change.
But the progress always invited skepticism about the politics of change.
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