Money from the Local Energy Assessment Fund, known as a LEAF grant, was awarded by the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

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The Icelandic government said the result of the referendum would delay "by some weeks" the next assessment by the International Monetary Fund of Iceland's progress toward economic recovery.

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Investors chose to put aside the International Monetary Fund's dour assessment of global growth.

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Mr. Ackman, the hedge-fund founder, disagrees with that assessment.

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Ultimately, though, it is the long term that Mr Bush needs to focus on, as he has now been reminded both by the CBO figures and by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its annual assessment of the American economy, published on August 14th.

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But worthiness is a quality that has to be earned, and can be lost, for one of the fund's novel features is the regular assessment of its projects by outside consultants.

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The World Wide Fund for Nature, which wants a comprehensive risk assessment of the European coastline carried out as a way of trying to prevent further spills, sent an expert to Brittany to assess the impact of the latest accident.

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