Timothy Keating, has asked his senior staff to develop ideas on how such a force might be established, the officials said.

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Admiral Timothy Keating, who retired this month as America's Pacific commander, has said that the deployment could be a springboard for a resumed dialogue between the two countries' forces.

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We asked Timothy Keating, a Harvard grad and financial advisor and founder and President of Keating Investments, to update it to see what changes the endowments have made in the wake of the financial crisis.

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