Although the four indicators described above are the most important measures considered by the NBER in developing its business cycle chronology, there is no fixed rule about which other measures contribute information to the process.
Neither of these requirements will be well served by hampering the transitional measures that developing countries like ours need to take to get themselves on sustainable growth tracks and generate the resources they need to play their part in preserving our planet.
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As he had long felt that the safety measures he was developing for military aircraft should also be used for civilian automobiles, Stapp also campaigned for the installation of seat belts and other safety features in American cars.
Professor Vaskar Saha, an expert on childhood cancer from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, told BBC News Online that survival rates could be improved in the developing world by relatively simply measures, such as training medical staff in diagnostic techniques.
"The Russian presidency's main task will be to focus the G-20's efforts on developing measures to stimulate economic growth and create jobs, " Putin said at the time.
Meanwhile, before the next review in 2011, annual meetings of experts will actually spend less time (one week, instead of two until now) discussing ways to improve lab safety and the security measures needed to govern dangerous pathogens, and on developing codes of conduct for those working in the biotech industry.
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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the Clinton administration, working with Israel, is developing "a parallel process" in which security measures by the Palestinians would be coordinated with an Israeli pullback on the West Bank.
Using conventional market measures, nearly the whole of the developing world save Africa has grown wealthier in the past couple of decades.
Developing countries refuse to participate in the treaty because they say that measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in their countries would bring economic harm.
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Tepco is developing a few measures, including a system that would pump groundwater away from the reactor buildings so there would be less contaminated liquid to deal with, and another that would remove all radioactive elements from the water so it could be released safely into the environment.
The International Monetary Fund is notorious for prescribing higher taxes and other bone-crushing austerity measures to developing nations that get into economic trouble.
Such safeguards include manufacturers training their dealers and distributors to identify and handle illegal purchasers at the point of sale, developing a code of conduct for distributors, and requiring them to implement record keeping measures in order to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
And then in other measures that the President has talked about, including, for example, the bipartisan support for developing more infrastructure -- for building roads, airports -- repairing roads and airports and bridges, so that we can have that foundation, that infrastructure foundation that we need in the 21st century.
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