Earlier this month, one of the agencies, children's charity Unicef, said it would soon be unable to provide "life-saving" aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan and other countries due to funds running out.

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He said the retirement system, which along with most other pension funds lost money in recent years due to adverse market conditions, has rebounded dramatically this year.

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The prior investment in infrastructure makes this far and away the most cost-effective, flexible and rapid means of fielding limited anti-missile systems, leaving ample funds available to bring other, complementary missile-defense technologies on line in due course.

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And individual investors, investment banks, fund-managers and particularly public pension funds should expand their "due diligence" assessments to include national security, human rights and other appropriate non-financial considerations so that the American people -- six out of ten of whom are now reportedly in the capital markets -- have the data required to make informed investment decisions.

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