Why are we treating Afghanistan almost like an afterthought, interesting and important but not as urgent a question as health care?
Besides, there are always issues more urgent in a thriving business, (though none more important).
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Yet such an agreement, which the conventional wisdom deemed highly significant and urgent just a few months ago, now appears superfluous (or in any event no big deal).
On September 3rd the government said it would postpone public-works projects not deemed to be urgent, a step which should help stabilise the rupiah, but which is likely to slow the economy.
And those who believe government has a responsibility to meet these urgent challenges have a great stake in bringing our deficits under control -- because if we don't, we won't be able to meet our most basic obligations to one another.
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Vaccinating a healthy baby may not seem as urgent as treating a sick patient, but the long-term costs of not doing so are incalculable.
"While this rescue attempt turned out to be a false alarm, and we must all be grateful for that, it highlights the urgent requirement for a properly regulated regime to be put in place by the Scottish Executive, " he said.
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But the placing of a bug can be authorised in urgent cases simply by a senior policeman.
What they came up with was an organization with a clear strategy, where everyone is urgent and aligned toward a common goal, and where execution of those strategies flowed smoothly with all of the management processes you would expect in place.
In a very real sense, during a credit crisis, fiscal stimulus answers an urgent public need for a safe place to store money, and at the same time is able to offer employment to those who are desperate to work.
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There is an urgent need for a recovery and renewal in the church, Dolan said.
Which underscores why the drug industry is on an urgent hunt for a savior.
Even Jacques Chirac of France, who speaks publicly of the urgent necessity for a deal, might privately prefer a failure.
After the urgent question, a motion to amend standing orders in relation to private bills and miscellaneous amendments was passed.
Mr Bhatara said the assessment was urgent to prevent a culture of revenge among the children or relatives of terror suspects.
Previously urgent cases like a broken bone or an inflamed appendix were squeezed in between surgeries that had been scheduled for months.
We look forward to seeing urgent proposals for a proportionate system that properly balances the aim of public protection with privacy rights.
Secretary Leavitt's initiative underscores the urgent need for a system where evidence-based information is used in a meaningful way to improve health care.
In 2011, it was the slowest service in the country for attending less urgent calls with a response rate of 74.3% from 17, 591 calls.
And, as America's labour markets become ever more tightly stretched, any further fall in unemployment provides an increasingly urgent signal for a tighter monetary policy.
Marines in Afghanistan have said there is urgent need for a weapon that is small and powerful enough to protect them from insurgents planting roadside bombs.
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Latest figures show in December they succeeded in responding to only 56.1% of the most urgent (Category A) calls within eight minutes compared to a target of 65%.
It has postponed about 100 non-urgent operations over a month.
Speaking during the second reading debate, the chair of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee, Vital Moreira, said there was an urgent need for a "smooth transition from one legal system to another".
The List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding is a list of cultural elements whose viability is at risk despite the efforts of the communities and groups that practice them.
Ahmed Wali Massoud, a senior figure in the old Northern Alliance, says Mr Rabbani had been pressed by the president himself to grant the urgent request for a meeting, and had rushed home from abroad to attend.
Steve Wearne, a director at the FSA, said it had called an urgent meeting "of a range of suppliers" on Monday where it would "stress again the responsibility of all food businesses to ensure the food that they sell contains what it says on the label".
Space suddenly became a topic of urgent public attention on October 4, 1957 when a tiny Soviet satellite chirped alarming evidence of technological superiority.
How would you feel if you were a CEO of a large corporation and could not send your power point slides in preparation for an urgent meeting, because a bunch of teenagers were on an mission to download all Sci-Fi movies released this year ?
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