But the report also suggests some on-the-ground steps, including getting more mobile fuel facilities, deploying city staffers faster to work with community groups on relief operations and working with companies to extend cellphone towers' backup power.
It's true that neither is likely to get to 300 wins, but that magic round number has become very much outdated as a benchmark in this era of five-man pitching rotations and increased emphasis on relief pitching.
Labour said the current 50% limit on tax relief on pensions for the highest earners should be brought into line with the 20% level for basic rate taxpayers.
The Bank and the Fund also believe that the conditions they place on debt relief cajole countries into beneficial policy reforms, such as putting a higher priority on health and education.
It's also to lend just moral support to victims and those who are working on the relief effort.
If anything, the Republican proposals are but a small down payment on genuine relief and simplification.
Roughly a third of the Bank's profits are spent on debt relief and subsidised loans.
The cap on tax relief announced in the Budget has made giving to charity a big political issue.
The Republicans don't want to pass a bill that spends more on disaster relief without spending cuts elsewhere.
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Kevin Poulin came on in relief and surrendered a soft goal to Glass.
Meanwhile, drilling on the relief well has been stopped at 17, 840 feet for the moment during the sensitive tests.
That issue has not been determined, with the ruling only on interim relief.
Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley was critical of the decision to impose a cap on tax relief, which he said could affect charitable donations.
The sequester shaves the equivalent of about 0.25% of GDP when offsetting it against the extra money the feds are spending on Sandy relief.
"I know they're working hard at it right now, " he told CNN in an interview aboard one of the drilling platforms working on the relief well.
There will be an extension of six months to the end of March 2013 on the relief that all small businesses with properties receive from business rates.
Even the Bank's new estimates say that fully free trade in goods could boost Africa's income by more than, say, this year's much-hailed deal on debt relief.
Just as both parties cooperated on tax relief that is now fueling job growth, we need to come together around a budget that cuts spending without slowing our economic momentum.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, one of the leading critics of the Obama administration, put aside his political differences to collaborate with the president on storm relief and emergency fuel.
For much of the consultation, Administration officials listened while the attendees shared their deep and broad expertise on hunger relief, agricultural development, and effective engagement of civil society in the developing world.
"Many people in developing countries don't rely much on governments, and even after a disaster, they just go ahead and do it, " said Peter McCawley, an economist at the Australian National University and a specialist on disaster relief policy.
Mr Balls drew MPs' attention to previous U-turns on changes to the rules governing tax relief on charitable giving, and imposing VAT on static caravan sales and hot takeaway food.
Mr Ruffley warned Mr Clegg against "pushing Conservative backbenchers around" on tax, particularly over issues like property taxes and tax relief on pension contributions.
The IMF and the financial markets would probably like to see a combination of all of these: long-term structural reforms to free up economies and put government spending on a more sustainable path, combined with some short-term relief on austerity and (with luck) easier monetary policy as well.
The two leaders reviewed a range of outstanding issues, including areas of cooperation upcoming in connection with the East Asia Summit, where they agreed to further bilateral and multilateral cooperation on nonproliferation, on humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and also on maritime security.
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