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... rates and the observed distribution of imbalances acrossmajor regions. Directors noted that the contin-ued willingness of foreign investors to hold U.S.187 SUMMING UP BY THE ACTING CHAIR The following ... eastern Europe; and further improve-ANNEX SUMMING UP BY THE ACTING CHAIR 188ments in the investment climate in manyemerging market economies.• Third, successful completion of the Doha Roundwill ... remarks by the Acting Chair were made at the conclusion of the ExecutiveBoard’s discussion of the World Economic Outlook on September 2, 2005.ANNEXdollar assets has so far enabled the large...

... APPENDIX156138ANNEX SUMMING UP BY THE CHAIRMAN The following remarks by the Chairman were made at the conclusion of the Executive Board’s discussion of the World Economic Outlook. They were made on ... criteria: by official external financing and by experience with debtservicing.5 The other groups of developing countries (seeTable E) constitute the HIPCs and MENA coun-tries. The first group comprises ... nature—could have on other countries in their respectiveregions. Regretting the recent decision by the U.S. authorities to raise tariffs on steel importsand the prospect of retaliation by other coun-tries,...

... in the newversion of the RAINS model [8] for the modelling work carried out in the scope of the CAFÉprogramme and the revision of the Gothenburg protocol. Costs are not yet available on the ... presently used in the new RAINS version for the modelling work carried in the scope of the CAFÉ programme and the revision of the GothenburgProtocol and national emission ceiling directive. The representative ... tankswhich mix the batch with other batches to insure product uniformity. The mixed batches are then fed toa continuous centrifuging operation that separates the polymer from the water in the slurry....

... failed to obtain evidence to support the assumptions they used or test the completeness and accuracy of the issuer's data used by the firm in developing the independent expectation. ... or defects are addressed by the firm, to the satisfaction of the Board, not later than 12 months after the date of the inspection report. The process for addressing the criticisms or defects ... related to the economic crisis by, among other things, interacting with other PCAOB offices and divisions, such as the Office of Research and Analysis ("ORA") and the Office of the Chief...

... compounds were there-fore not identified in this study, and if present, the aminoacid concentrations in these samples are at the ~ppm levelor lower for the DCM/MeOH extract. The particle amountavailable ... analysisined by organic analysis except for lunar soils collected by the Apollo Program (Harada et al., 1971) and cometarymaterials collected by the Stardust mission (Sandford etal., 2006). The Hayabusa ... transportedfrom space, but also the organic precursors such as CNcould be implanted into the surface particles by solarwinds, which may result in amino acids by hydrolysis.Therefore, the existence of organic...

... low-temperature exposure, and theirinduction is also gated by the circadian clock, with the extent of transcript accumulation upon cold exposuredepending on the time of day of the exposure [51].Cold ... plants are at the mercy of the elements. Nonetheless, plants havemanaged to adapt, evolve and survive in some of the harshest conditionson earth. The FEBS Workshop ‘Adaptation Potential in Plants’, ... Gallery,London, UK). (B) The colouring of the labellum (specialized median petal) of the flowers of the orchid Ophrys speculum closely resembles the female wasp Colpa aurea, thus males of the species are...

... There’s sand streaming off it, and Staff Sergeant Brandon Espinosa, who’s on watch, bends down and hauls me up.  He’s put up a canvas screen with  the help of the two ANA who’re there with him. The guard tower sways like a ship in the storm. Espinosa looks exhausted, and I don’t blame him.He shouts: I’m going to send my ANA crew down and stay up here by myself. Less trouble that way.I lean toward him and shout back: Suit yourself. The relieved ANA slither down.I watch them go and shake my head: You’d think they weren’t in their own country.Espinosa says: They aren’t. They’re Uzbek. This is Pashtun land.I say: No point telling you to keep a look out, but still . . . He cracks a smile and shoves a wad of chew into his mouth. He’s a veteran of Iraq, a man of few words, capable, efficient. I’m not wor-ried about leaving him in the tower by himself.Back on the ground, I run with Whalen past the brick-and-mor-tar command post, then follow the Hescos back toward the ECP. We slow down by the shelter of the mortar pit where Manny Ramirez and Pratt have secured the gun with canvas. Pratt has his M-4 tucked Bhat_9780307955890_7p_01_r2.indd ... 37Whalen, who’s six four, picks up Fazal Ahmed and sets him down by the Hescos. Stay here! he roars.I drag the other two Afghans back. You’re not allowed to leave, I yell.Ya’ll understand? Whalen roars again, shouting above the wind.They don’t reply, but return to crouching sullenly by the Hescos.We leave them and canter over to the camo nets surrounding the guard tower. I clamber up the staircase, while Whalen stays behind.  The raw wind buffets me as I ascend the rickety steps, and I have to grasp the guardrails with all my strength. Sand, stones, and clumps of dust whirl upward and hit me. A loose splinter ricochets off the back of my hand and leaves a bloody smear. Then the platform looms above  ... W A T C Hand bank away from the ground. The rising sun spools through the windows of the bird and slathers the valley red. It lights on the face of  the man in the stretcher next to mine. It’s Mitchell.Someone sticks a needle into my arm. I swallow hard.I’m going home.Bhat_9780307955890_7p_01_r2.indd...

... collected by these qual-ity control teams were later compared with the data collected by the field teams to check the accuracy of the data collection. The study protocol complied with the principles ... anystage of the interview. The protocol for the NSS was approved by the Medical EthicalCommittee of the Ministry of Health, Govern-ment of Indonesia. The plan for secondarydata analysis by Johns ... immunizations,may not be reaching the children who needthem the most (Bryce et al 2003).In 2005, the Global Immunization Visionand Strategy (GIVS) was jointly developed by the WHO, the United Nations Children’s...

... PL spectrum was measured by a325 nm He–Cd laser. The PL signal from the sample was filtered by a monochromator andpicked up by a CCD detector. The power arrivingat the sample was about 3 mW ... is obvious that the solid line fitswell the data shown by the black square in bothsamples. The PL intensity is linearly dependent on the excitation power. This indicates that the Fig. 2. Room ... for 10 min at1608C followed by deionized water rinse. The reaction temperature was 6008C and the power of the plasma source was 900 W. The growth rate was1 mm/h. The non-doped sample (sample...

... these."Come in," he said calmly, waving them into the apartment.Six of them entered. The other two stayed outside in the hall.Five of the six remained standing. The leader took the ... Accompanied by the squad, they climbed into the car and left.As soon as they were well away from the Residence, Jackson grabbedMcLeod by the lapel of his jacket. "All right, humorist! What was the idea ... overripe, you dig it up again, knock the top off the shell the way you would a soft-boiled egg,and eat it. Then you pick the pinfeathers out of your teeth. Baluts.Now you know how the greatest delicacies...