If we pay restaurant workers a living wage and ensure they can stay home when they're sick, that means fewer taxpayer dollars on public health emergencies and fewer stomach aches for diners as well.

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The new vehicle and its volunteer crew will work closely with the Westcountry Ambulance Service and help with providing medical assistance and cover for public events and civic emergencies.

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Further, Congress is not wholly unresponsive to public preferences regarding intervention in humanitarian emergencies.

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Until the cause of the deaths was established, all MRI scans using contrast agents, except in emergencies, had been suspended in public hospitals of Campinas, they added.

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Ethan Leib, who teaches law at the University of California at Hastings, points to public savings that accrue when friends step in during illness and other emergencies.

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Under my bill, certain rules would be exempt from the moratorium: those that are needed in emergencies, such as to respond to imminent threats to public health or safety, and those affecting crime, the military and foreign affairs.

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The need for a nationwide, fully interoperable Public Safety-only broadband network is demonstrated every day, and during major emergencies it will provide better and quicker response for all of those involved in managing the emergency from the federal government down to the local sheriff and fire chief.

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And according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), that means agencies responding to radiation emergencies may permit many more civilian fatalities.

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The Emergencies Ministry said 53 people were known to have died, although the Russian public broadcaster ORT put the known death toll at 65, and Interfax news agency said up to 70 people were confirmed dead.

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