At the same time, energy giant Enron (nyse: ENE) said it would stop supplying power to industrial and commercial customers in California, handing that task over to the states' troubled utilities.
At the same time, energy giant Enron (nyse: ENE - news - people) said it would stop supplying power to industrial and commercial customers in California, handing that task over to the states' troubled utilities.
Indeed, it could have been no easy task for a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice to administer that large of an estate in rural Illinois.
In recommending against PSA tests for early signs of prostate cancer, the United States Preventive Services Task Force has struck another blow for a head-in-the-sand approach to early detection of fatal illnesses.
"People forget that there are two sides to screening, " says Dr. Barbara Yawn, director of research at Olmstead Medical Center and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed group of health care professionals that study and evaluate health screens.
But another extremely challenging task facing the Bush administration is the need to improve the image of the United States around the world, a task made more difficult by allegations of prisoner abuse that have put the Bush administration on the defensive.
They hope their task force, which examines five states, California, Illinois, New York, Virginia and Texas, will illuminate issues the public doesn't fully grasp.
Even as they commended Bush for his speech, several Republican said that the United States faces a daunting task in trying to bring stability and democracy to Iraq.
In addition, and again different from the past when the West sought to deter the Warsaw Pact from projecting force outward, these rogue states see as their task deterring us from intervening in their regions.
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In those states, Washington took on the task of granting money for hiring navigators.
We have been given a task by the attorney general of the United States and then by the Special Division of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
In April 2002, Mr. Marriott was named by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Japanese government to co-chair a special task force to promote travel between the United States and Japan.
Our task is to persuade and nurture all societies and states to move in this direction.
As well as their solidarity in the courts, at least 35 states have banded together to form a task-force to look into drug-pricing issues.
With over 60% of its revenues coming from outside the United States, the firm faces the daunting task of supporting 4m users of its software in many different parts of the world.
By failing at the onset of the crisis to indicate that certain limited exceptions would be made, the United States forfeited to the United Nations the task of defining the scope of this loophole, and weakened the weight of a long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the use of food as a weapon in settling disputes.
The French were the most bullish in supporting military intervention by ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), but the scale of the task was recognized as enormous.
Only 14 states currently force students to perform some kind of task besides essay writing.
And his task was made more difficult by the fact that the United States' past dealings with Indonesia have been less than angelic.
As the past few years have proved, building trains on Earth, particularly in the United States of America, can be a pretty daunting task.
Mr Fox's immediate task, however, is to cushion the blow from the United States' slowdown.
And to represent the United States there is the most thrilling and the most humbling task a lawyer can perform.
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Today, there are 28 task forces in the FEMA system, which, though overseen by individual states, have the support of the federal government.
The Clean Air Task Force -- an environmental organization advancing clean technology in the United States and China -- is pivotal to Duke Energy efforts.
It is disliked by many but it is the commission's task to be mean to a lot of people, be it member states (infringement procedures), undertakings (competition procedures) or the Council itself (withholding undesirable legislative initiatives).
This shows the commitment that the United States has to bringing security to Afghanistan and, by extension, to the United States and the rest of the world, and the difficult task that we have ahead of us in securing our future generations a better and more secure life.
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That task may fall to General Khalifa Haftar, a longtime exile in the United States.
The Coral Reef Task Force consists of senior leaders of 11 federal agencies and representatives of seven states and territories, and is co-chaired by the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of Commerce.
Just last week the White House said it was considering a task force proposal to allow the estimated 3 million Mexicans living illegally in the United States to achieve permanent legal residence through a guest-worker program.
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