If Mr Clinton fails to win fast-track before his presidency ends in January 2001, the talks may slide into the dust.

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It has been used to coordinate requests for relief efforts, track victims in camps and shelters, and coordinate volunteers in the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2006 mud slide in the Philippines, the 2007 earthquake in Peru and the 2008 earthquake in China.

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