To date, one constant since the 1997-98 crisis has been the absence of a co-ordinated regional response.
U.S. efforts are premised on building local capacity to improve the regional response to health issues and relying less on outside assistance.
American officials ruefully agree that they should have thought about the regional response to an agreement they now say was not necessary and was drawn up at Colombian insistence.
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It focused on climate change science, as well as on key risks to Southern Africa, national and regional response strategies, and particularly on how best to communicate complex information to the general public.
Burke made these decisions in the face of some resistance from his own board, who thought that a regional response would be sufficient, and that a recall might be tantamount to an admission of guilt.
Utilities have bought more than 1, 500 pieces of equipment, from emergency diesel generators to sump pumps and satellite phones, Pollock said, and the industry is setting up two regional response centers in Memphis and Phoenix.
The RDR can significantly increase the ability for states to provide and receive swift and effective support in the event of future natural disasters in the region, as well as provide a framework for closer links between regional disaster response authorities.
And he was emphatic in stating that Channel 4 would not introduce regional news bulletins, in response to comments by ITV chairman Michael Grade that his network's regional coverage may be outsourced in future.
Thirdly, the fast-growing regional interdependence may seem to demand a regional financial-crisis response.
We invested in parts inventory which we located on over 400 trucks and in regional warehouses to provide quick response to repairs.
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To coordinate rapid and effective response and recovery on a regional scale requires preplanning.
In Westminster Hall there's more backbench business - MPs will debate the Communities and Local Government Select Committee's report on the European Regional Development Fund, and the government response to it.
Third, a response must be coordinated at global and regional levels.
So a kind of surprising response to global warming, where you can actually get regional cooling in parts of the globe.
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Regional platforms will fare less well, receiving only 14.74% response.
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So far, the response from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional club of 14 countries, has been muted.
But as I recently noted in my response to a Charles Krauthammer column, if the Poles feel threatened by their regional security environment, they have a very funny way of showing it.
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By warning of an "immediate and firm" response to any future "breaches" it also hinted at the kind of regional flare-up that is increasingly worrying the international community as it sees the Syrian crisis deepening, our correspondent adds.
Critics raised concerns that if local knowledge was lost because calls were being answered in a regional centre instead of the service's two centres in Devon and Somerset, it could affect response times and risk lives.
As a response, councils have been grouped together into four partnerships so they can plan and deliver improvements on a regional basis.
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