They put public agencies on full alert to provide immediate assistance to victims and their families.
Secondly, public agencies, for whatever reason, seem loath to take advantage of pre-existing outside expertise.
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Public agencies cut 12, 000 workers in December, with most of those cuts at the local level.
In previous disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, FEMA has reimbursed public agencies and cities 100%, Mr. Byrne said.
People do not have easy access to public information, and public agencies are not proactively providing this information.
In Dubai, public agencies compete to impress the country's go-ahead sheikh, who praises the best and humiliates the laggards.
Then start calling private and public agencies that help people in your situation.
In St Paul, public agencies and private companies have built a science museum, a hockey arena and a convention centre.
As the public concern about privacy is increasing, the failure of public agencies to take forceful action is becoming a problem.
Further, public agencies frequently development their own custom versions of tools and software that can be bought inexpensively from third-party providers.
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He formed the Housing Partnership in 1982 to work with public agencies and private developers on middle-income housing, mostly on surplus city-owned land.
Moreover, Beattie Media does public relations work for a lot of public agencies, such as Scottish Enterprise, for which the Scottish Parliament is responsible.
But looking at how this state agency prioritizes its resources in tough times gives us insight into a problem that is endemic in public agencies.
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Few public agencies, including 911 dispatch centers, maintain a database of AED locations or systematically check to make sure available devices are in working order.
Dr. Rehana Kassim is the owner and founder of Rehanstat Sdn Bhd, which offers customized market research for an extensive list of public agencies and private companies.
Deep-seated transparency reforms need to be a cornerstone in the government's plan, and should apply to U.S. public agencies as well as domestic and international financial institutions.
Annetta Cheek, chairwoman of the Center for Plain Language, says the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which requires public agencies to lighten their leaden language, has given strong support to the antijargon movement.
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Europe is back atop the agenda as holders of Greek debt and public agencies discuss how to engineer a debt restructuring that will both satisfy all parties and avoid triggering credit default swaps.
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Similarly, trying to contain the oil and limit the environmental impact is also complex, involving multiple technologies, the coordination of public agencies and private sector firms, and the mobilization of huge amounts of equipment and people.
"We remain concerned about proposals pending in several countries that would give public agencies greater power to demand access to encrypted keys or plain text, " David Sobel, EPIC general counsel, said Monday in a phone interview.
Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank played large roles in our recent financial disaster, encouraging the government-backed, quasi-public agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep funding and guaranteeing mortgages for those who would not otherwise qualify.
Finally and this is the answer that Arizona State Parks gave me when I raised the issue public agencies believe they need the extra administrative staff to respond to requirements placed on them by other public officials and agencies.
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Essentially that the jammer that lessens the din of personal conversations on your M-14 bus also has the potential to cut off communication between the driver and dispatch centers or public agencies, which could result in a public safety snafu or disaster.
The LAPD and other public safety agencies will remain vigilant at all public and sporting events in Los Angeles.
ESRI's rivals have made inroads into its stronghold in government and public health agencies.
To enable public assistance agencies to verify eligibility for and amount of income-based benefits.
The other pieces enterprise products like two-way radios for public safety agencies and bar-code scanners became Motorola Solutions, with Brown at the helm.
Had Public Safety agencies been making use of these networks they would not have been able to respond in a timely fashion.
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Defense and public safety agencies are eager to deploy wireless networks to exploit these capabilities and, as a result, contracts are flowing like water.
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