The report, Achieving and Sustaining Earth Observations: A Preliminary Plan Based on a Strategic Assessment by the U.S. Group on Earth Observations, was requested by Congress in the 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public Law 111-117).

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Abdul Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said Wednesday that Lion's Roar was a preliminary security plan that set the stage for this week's Operation Mother of Two Springs.

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The Bloomberg administration cautioned that the plan is preliminary and has been under discussion for only a matter of weeks.

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High Commissioner for Refugees, said Friday the agency had developed a preliminary repatriation and reintegration plan for up to 500, 000 Iraqi refugees out of the nearly 900, 000 now in the immediate region and beyond.

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The plan has raised concerns since a preliminary list of facilities was released a month ago.

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For example, the preliminary report gives significance to the catastrophic incident annex to the National Response Plan.

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This book is the result of thoughts discussed in the workshop on challenges and perspectives of Brazilian Higher Education for the next decade, which had the objective to present preliminary indicators to build prospective of the Brazilian Higher Education for the next decade based on the National Education Plan 2011-2020.

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