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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

On 12th October 2008 I attended a conference at which an epidemiologist stood up and said "My job is to tell you something you don't want to know, and ask you to spend money you haven't got on something you don't think is going to happen." Current leadership by the United States tends to favour collapse rather than protection.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

Marc Holzer (editor) and Andrew Ballard (editor) Public Productivity and Performance Handbook , 3rd Edition, 2021, plus Roadmaps for Performance Donald Moynihan, The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform , Georgetown University Press, 2008.

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release: Market-Improving Reforms (Part 4 of 4)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” Originally, in 2008, there was no expectation that the conservatorships would produce such changes, which were only initially announced in early 2012. The FHFA mandates that F&F use a very specific waterfall developed under its leadership within conservatorship. [17]

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The Iberian green industrial opportunity: Carbon capture and storage

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

2),” Eurostat, accessed June 2024; “Employment by sex, age, and detailed economic activity (from 2008 onwards, NACE Rev.2 Project promotion Some countries are actively engaging in projects through public companies while inviting the participation of private sector leadership.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

post-2008 deforestation). We believe these tools are critical elements of the solution to deforestation in Pará and across the Brazilian Amazon, and we are pleased to support leadership from the State of Pará.” SeloVerde 2.1’s The vision behind SeloVerde and CAR 2.0 [the How SeloVerde 2.1

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. In 2008, when F&F entered into conservatorship, the three reforms described above occurred immediately.

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Progress in topological superconductors for quantum computing

Open Access Government - Technology News

ORNL’s investment in ARPES expertise led to its leadership in the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a DOE Quantum Information Science Research Center formed in 2020. A Majorana particle is its own antiparticle,” Moore said. This method helps scientists understand electron behaviour in materials.