While major equity indices traded in the red over in the Old Continent, a Troika mission to Greece released the results of a preliminary assessment.

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Their NI 43-101 has been completed and updated and they finished almost a year ago the next requirement in the chain, the PEA (preliminary economic assessment).

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It has dispatched preliminary damage assessment teams to North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, and we have folks on the ground assessing the situation and standing ready to provide assistance as necessary.

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The department already issued a preliminary environmental impact assessment, which seems generally supportive of the project.

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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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President Bush predicted that those who want to pull out of Iraq will point to the unsatisfactory report card, but he reiterated that this was a preliminary report and that a more comprehensive assessment would come in mid-September.

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