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...Legislative Advisory Commission to Minnesota Management and Budget took the unanimous step Thursday at the request of agency chief Jim Showalter, who says he is hoping that short-term borrowing isn't necessary but wants to be prepared if it is...
...accident report is regretful,'' Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota was quoted as saying by Kyodo News agency. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka was also quoted by Kyodo as expressing dismay over the handling of the accident...
...interview on NBC's ''Today'' show. ''I'm quite concerned about it.'' In Washington, Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner said that a preliminary investigation has turned up ''no reasonable answer'' that any market force...
...station, and Russians have been reluctant to let it go. "Nothing can last for eternity, even the Mir," Russian space agency chief Yuri Koptev told reporters, warning that it would be unsafe to keep the rattling, corroding Mir aloft in its current...
...new, purely Russian orbiter using existing designs for the international station. But Yuri Koptev, Russia's space agency chief, said Friday that Russia would concentrate on its international obligations. "The epoch of space races is over...
...infusion of money and improved technology will begin to reverse the decline in Internal Revenue Service audits, which agency chief Charles Rossotti says are essential to ensure compliance. But he has a warning for those tempted to cheat. "This...
...to a year to sign. The treaty goes into effect once 50 nations have ratified it. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman promised the United States would move fast to seek ratification. "We intend to work expeditiously...
...alliance. In Kabul, the Taliban denied the report. Abdul Hanan Hemat, chief of the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency chief, said "there are no troops under siege and that the bulk of the Taliban forces had withdrawn to Samangan province...
...security, is seeking ways to make travel less onerous. Among the considerations is getting rid of the questions, says agency chief James Loy. "A review is under way," Loy said Thursday at a news conference in San Francisco. He said it was part...
...When Bush named him to head the SEC 15 months ago, it was the culmination of Pitt's long-held dream to return as agency chief. But from the start Pitt was dogged by criticism that he was too close to the securities and accounting industries...