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With the threat of pandemic influenza looming, there has never been a greater need for health leadership, and health partnership.

One thing we said was that there was a looming strike. We have not, the Central Working Committee, taken a date for a strike.

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To continue the journey for some, more than behalf of a strong sense of acceleration is always looming .

With his 50th birthday looming, Mr Banga started to think seriously about what he wanted to do with the rest of his career.

But between high vacancy rates and a looming wave of foreclosures that will add more supply to the market, such a low level seems justified.

He took it for a hill looming above a wooded island, or some colossal rock overgrown with moss and ferns and hidden by the fog.

He stared up in terror at the dark figure looming over him.

Pandemic scares have an unfortunate habit of looming just when investors are regaining a bit of confidence after a financial shock.

It is almost as if it were rescuing, say, California from a looming default.

With Congress frozen and an election looming, Mr Obama has been trying to exert power on his own.

The twig dropped from his nerveless fingers, as though an arrow had pierced his heart. Slowly, he turned to look at the looming shape.

So has the PC monolith reformed itself enough to be able to plough through the looming recession?

There was the mirage of a distant country and wondrous scenes looming up in her mind.

But with college expenses looming, I couldn't help thinking that it would be really nice if he used his graduation cash for that instead.

From there, though, with the end of a ride that began almost three months ago looming, I slowed down and started on an oblique route home.

Though she was never intended for the stage, the looming bankruptcy of her father obliged her to try her chances.

One day at the local library, I was crouched, looking for a book, and I became aware of a woman looming over me.

This week's event in San Francisco was an effort to update the defense pact, with China again looming over the meeting.

And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago.

it's a final step and trying to find the final solution to avoid the looming fiscal cliff about automatic tax hikes and spending cuts.

All in all, the panel was about as entertaining as it could be with the dark cloud looming over it.

Two came, tall women looming in their black, one of them thin and rigid, the other heavy, swaying with the planting of her feet.

The looming budget cuts are putting the question of class size front and center in local communities and the national education debate.

The sunsets between the land and the sky mixed red, orange and yellow, looming ahead through the haze.

It may be tempting to carryout a few tasks when a deadline is looming, but leave this to others while you get on with managing the project.

A looming question is whether a restrictive Chinese government might clamp down on its ability to cover stories away from the sports arenas.

Legal agreements must take account of a likely exit, any looming threats and the value the two sides expect to derive from the venture.

It towered hundreds of feet in the air . . . and just stayed there, looming over the ships like the shadow of doom.

Smaller regional banks have long been a third option, but the looming commercial-property bust is diminishing their usefulness.

ARSENE WENGER has still not found a stand-in keeper to replace injured Manuel Almunia with the Community Shield against Chelsea looming.

With budget cuts looming, the navy must make a strong case for funding any of its projects.

Mr. Wu's farmhouse filled up with the evidence he amassed, a bit haphazardly , of a looming environmental disaster.

And with the FA Cup final against Stoke looming on Saturday, this could be a truly momentous week in the history of the club.

Life, then, without BlackBerrys is looming. So did this week leave you ready to cope?

It was another small clue for scientists struggling to understand one of the biggest looming mysteries about the future of the earth.

A looming global economic slowdown could threaten regions of the U. S. that have managed to outpace the country's sputtering recovery.

Great fears are looming up in their minds that the missing group may have already died.

With electricity flickering, food prices rising and fuel scarce, it is no wonder that the UN is warning of a looming humanitarian disaster.

Looming in the backdrop is a European debt debacle that seems to get more convoluted by the week.

With this uncertainty looming, Morgan Stanley and Goldman might decide selling out to a bigger bank is better for shareholders.

Thanks to those issues, the midterm congressional elections are looming larger in importance than is usually the case.

With a fiscal crunch looming, the political appeal of such financial alchemy can only grow.

But a recent survey indicates that the primary care crisis may not be looming on the horizon; it may already be at our back door.

Star naughty child is still blinking his eyes, set off in a plume of cloud looming next.

With a general election looming, the government ducked the issue, leaving it to a proposed new commission to be convened after the election.

That target will not be easily met, and the looming deadline puts pressure on officials to crack down on heavy energy users.

Venus looming, as featured in Issue 259, of this newsletter, is being captured on a number of videos, from many places around the globe.

But it is surely too optimistic to believe that the Fund would ever be able to provide reliable warnings of looming crises.

S&P said the looming election was creating uncertainty about government policy.

Recession has only delayed the looming energy crunch (see article). How did Britain end up in this mess?

The researchers say that adopting good diet and becoming more physically active are the best ways of tackling looming insulin resistance.

Divided government means that both parties could get blamed for a severe recession, and neither wants that with an election looming.

With a fourth season looming, undoubtedly the path to true love will continue to be rocky, intertwined and hard-fought.

Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached pieces of our galaxy.

With a faculty meeting looming, he knew he had to resolve the conflict between him and Simon and align the department.

He was laid off in 2009 from his longtime job as a retailing executive, and she quit her teaching job amid looming school-budget cuts.

My entry was a lark, but it spurred me to spend a lot of time reading through other postings and contemplating the looming Games.

GM has been forced to put its European operations up for sale amid looming bankruptcy proceedings.

With the transfer deadline looming on the horizon, Lazio appear to have struck a deal with both the player and his paymasters.

Right now we're looking at not one but two looming crises, either of which could produce a global disaster.

The RBA rate decision was now looming with the general consensus being that the central bank would keep rates on hold at 4. 75%.

I feel a little better. I'm sorry, I got a little nervous what with the WHOLE EXECUTION LOOMING AND ALL!

In the United States, which unlike other industrialized nations lacks a national health plan, the looming recession may take a greater toll.

With the current Lakers squad poised for a shakeup and a lockout looming in the NBA, Jackson chose a good time to move on.

These all point to a looming economic slowdown, but it would probably take something more serious to trigger another all-out global slump.

Over the next few days, attempts were made, but no one could find a way to resolve the issue looming over the project.

Now his own poor health and the looming succession make even the pretence of a negotiated process too risky.

My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago.

Many economists view such an exploding population of seventy- and eighty-somethings not as an asset, but as a looming budget crisis.

'Now there's a larger [looming] disparity between supply and demand, ' he said.

My boss may go easy on me, the general mood of the country will lift and even the looming spending cuts may feel more bearable.

The centre-left mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Jervolino, warned Mr Prodi of the looming crisis a year ago.

March poll in Andalusia, in the south, where the PP may end decades of Socialist hegemony, is the only election looming.

China and Russia have balked so far, but the looming spectre of a massacre may make them rethink.

Such numbers are in any event small change compared with other losses looming over the company.

With a US economic downturn looming, the pressure to hold down spending is expected to intensify further this year.

Libel reform may seem an obscure subject for an unpopular government to pursue with a general election looming.

Meanwhile, the company's military aircraft sales face pressure under looming defense budget cuts.

To its admirers, the innovations in seeds pioneered by Monsanto are the world's best hope of tackling a looming global food crisis.

The cyclical peak had been close to 4% in late 2006, when the looming value-added tax (VAT) hike had led to purchases being brought forward.

The housing crisis looming over much of the country seemed manageable; home prices had never reached stratospheric levels.

Officials are worried about the looming autumn grain harvest, as rice output remains one of its most crucial variables.

In a rational world, then, the looming climate disaster would be our dominant political and policy concern.

They have learned from that and when they see a longer recession looming they are more prepared to sell.

Working to a timetable is something that we advocate during the normal school year, and particularly when exams are looming.

Good analysis of looming trouble, and of opportunities to forestall an explosion, serves both the national and the collective interest.

Global aging is no longer a distant challenge looming over the horizon.

Gone are the tired rants of his predecessor about a looming Islamist takeover.

Tsunamis, Middle East crises, government shutdown threats and a looming budget deficit are all dampers on the market.

Tsunamis, Middle East crises, government shutdown threats and a looming budget deficit are all dampers on the market.

The steep mountains looming over the breeding center were collapsing in landslides as strong aftershocks rippled through the valley.

The outlook for November is even better, though with the looming uncertainties of Christmas and a return to higher VAT in January.

It was a stark warning from the Federal Reserve Board Chairman: Congress must act now to head off a looming crisis in social security.

What had been experienced in the past was always looming in memory like a picture.

Spain did not say when the midfielder would be fit to play, with their first game looming on Wednesday against Switzerland.

But, with an election looming, it has been careful to avoid spelling out the implications.

Jeremiahs have been warning about a looming debt crisis for at least 20 years.

Looming on the distant horizon, Roraima dominated the landscape, glowing intense red in the warm light of the setting sun.

They hope China's looming pensions crisis will be a bonanza for businesses with a track record in selling pension services.

The looming NBA playoffs were on his mind. So were the joyful shouts emanating through his window.

The sea is turquoise and scattered with red fishing boats, looming white bergs and the occasional nose of a seal.

Slice thin, translucent shrimp dumplings, fresh dumplings intradermal filling looming, the shape of a banana comb.

Stupid coat of her own, from the Shangri-La Salon, looming like a walrus or and angel of death, watching her.

A looming exit strategy is only positive (for the dollar) if formed by positive data, not inflation.

Researchers discovered getting old, job security and a dire sex life also leave a dark cloud looming over millions of us.

Hensarling says the FED strategy creates considerable risk, Bernanke was asked about the looming spending cuts known as the sequester.

However, with stricter CAFE regulations looming, it remains a distinct possibility that the U. S. could see an oil-burning option.

The prospect of the looming succession, with an unpopular crown prince in the wings, further heightens tensions.

Among the many clouds looming over the world's economy, it is reassuring to have a ray of sunshine to look ahead to.

A bitter fratricidal battle is looming, with calls for an emergency party conference to remove him as secretary-general.

The big, looming issue will not be which vaccine to get, but whether to get it at all, he says.

Overlooking that risk has possibly cost future economic growth, the report said, and has contributed to a looming environmental crisis.

The UN's World Food Programme gives warning of a looming crisis. Flour, rice, sugar, milk, canned food and fresh meat have nearly run out.

The heart of the problem is the looming patent "cliff" (see chart).

With an election looming, the government slashed the company's investment budget instead.

And then there's the looming question of identity: After four years of learning how to grow up, who do you become?

The funds' collapse, which cost investors $1. 6 billion, was the one of the first public signs on Wall Street of the looming credit crunch.

The looming expiry at the end of the month of Israel's freeze on building settlements had soured the atmosphere.

They may well have another chance this year, with a budget battle looming in March that could send Canadians to the polls again.

With a constitutional crisis looming, the government backed down, and the clause became law in a much-diluted form.

Still, with elections looming, these parties may have little time to regroup or field a strong crop of candidates.

What we are encountering in the global economy isn't just a credit crisis and looming melt-down of various financial institutions.

This episode addresses a looming challenge our civilization faces when boldly going out to other worlds.

At first the men in the consumer-film business, who refused to see the looming crisis, prevailed.

Few traders are willing to concede that the economy is headed toward a second full recession, but the probability is looming larger.

Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis.

But we may steadily see Venus looming close, appearing larger, and not in her orbit as we approach this time.

She still maintains that the state of state and local finances are a looming crisis.

Oil was up earlier after an attack on a pipeline in Nigeria and a looming refinery strike in Scotland.

Indeed, though I stood among the looming megaliths eager to take in their meaning, they didn't speak to me.

After the killings, the authorities said there were indications that the two youths were disturbed and hints of the looming catastrophe.

With downsizing looming in his company's future, he's scouting for a space his new venture can call home.

But with an American presidential election looming, time was of the essence.

When the layer of mist dispersed, looming between the extended hands of destiny engraved lines written in the palm of my fate!

He warns, wisely, of the looming budgetary calamity when baby-boomers start claiming Medicare (public health care for the elderly).

A showdown is looming between the new government and the president concerning the judiciary.

In a new report, consultancy McKinsey & Co. says fixing China's looming water crisis can be profitable.

Then there is the looming threat of the internet, with its tendency to disintermediate content from carrier.

With this shortage of medical isotopes looming worldwide, other countries have begun to act.

With that deadline looming, Obama has made his most forceful appeal to date for Congress to act on climate change.

Mr. Obama extended an invitation to lawmakers to address Social Security's looming financial crunch, as the Baby Boom generation retires.

With an election looming, it is worth realizing that lawmakers may not be considering long-term viability.

They stopped short of specifying what the administration will say at the event about other contentious issues looming over the negotiations.

With an election looming and the recovery looking pallid, politicians may grasp for whatever villains are available.

The need for joint action to develop long-term solutions to the looming energy crisis is now undeniable.

Some see the change as a sign of Mr Gou's looming retirement, especially since he first talked of grooming a successor a few years ago.

Smoke and mirrors, water view month, looming Ruoyouruowu if so, purposely pointed, the heart has been fixed!

Differences may also be looming at the summit over NATO troop levels in Afghanistan.

With talk of a new credit crisis looming in Europe, the week ahead could get ugly on Wall Street.

In the first at the top of the sarcoma, the "King" -shaped dimples looming on the horizon, it seems very powerful.

Statues or architecture since the Baroque HAs a dark, muscular, looming quality acres you.

Bag makers have already felt the pinch from the looming restrictions. Some have even been forced out of business.

"The linear increase in record life expectancy for more than 165 years does not suggest a looming limit to human lifespan, " they write.

With war in Iraq looming and a turbulent oil market, some risk aversion is understandable.

We can hope that this dance will deliver a temporary delay of the looming trade and currency war.

The cohesiveness of NATO is being put to a formidable test pending the looming American and British led war against Iraq.

But the next challenge they face is already looming on the horizon: A slowdown in Chinese car sales.

But, their marriage had recently broken down, with a bitter divorce and custody fight looming.

The looming midterm congressional elections have kept companies uneasy about how regulations could change if the balance of power changes.

Roadside vegetation covered with dew looming in the fog, the fog seemed to struggle with the high and low.

This thought, watching, suddenly found that touch the horizon into clouds looming faint rose to cast a warm land of light.

But Sudan's looming division could thrust China into the unfamiliar role of powerbroker in a distant land.

Despite these looming challenges, some positive trends are emerging and Africans are taking charge of their development needs.

With parliamentary and presidential elections looming , the Kremlin will welcome the extra scope to raise pensions and public sector wages .

no rich country can simply grow its way out of looming pension and health-care commitments.

After months of negotiations, six main electoral blocks have emerged to meet a looming deadline for registering alliances.

Faced with a deadline, volunteers saw difficult and complex tasks as looming all too close.

Crunch time, however, is looming far sooner for a number of other economies.

The EU wants Europe's biggest economy to avoid looming labour shortages in future by dismantling barriers to women entering the workforce.

The looming debt ceiling has government agencies backing away from spending. Forecasting a slowdown in demand in the short term.

Another motivation may be the looming patent-expiry crisis confronting many big drugs companies.

When Wright returned to Egypt 33 years later to conduct interviews for The Looming Tower, he found the country profoundly changed.

Peter Hain stood down as Work and Pensions Secretary in January 2008 in the face of a looming police investigation.

But their may be a looming problem in the ownership and provenance of the funds.

Mountainous cliffs, looming in among the pines and cypresses.

Popular discontent is running high, with another round of one-off tax demands looming as the economy moves deeper into recession.

also arisen some modern business, a number of heavy make-up mainland woman, were looming behind the pink curtain.

After this fall, hopes of accomplishing legislation diminish significantly with the election looming.

So readers may like to take note of the looming Egg War between Bosnia and the European Union, or more specifically Croatia.

Just an endless plain with the High Andes cradling and looming over it, like a proscenium arch.

Britain's North Sea reserves are running down and the country is worrying about a looming energy crisis.

With the Iraq war looming , many of them panicked , sold out and did not return to the markets until 2004 or later .

Looming behind the immediate needs of the naval forces is a coming crisis in aircraft procurement.

Power availability. . . looming power shortages during the summer?

Universities had seen trouble looming since March, when a new student-visa system was introduced.

But in the Saturday Republican radio address, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan said a crisis could be looming.

Another crisis was looming, though none of us knew it at the time.

"A new trade war is looming, " he wrote in a recent article about the paper case, predicting disastrous consequences for both sides.

But with state budget cuts looming, I wonder if it s possible.

A looming one concerns E15, a proposed blend containing 15% ethanol that producers would like to see replace E10.

But appetite in Congress to take action against China is high with an election looming.

We might soon find out, thanks to a looming "mega-battle" Moffett's anticipating in California.

The iPhone set the tone and terms for the mobile wars, with iTunes and the App Store looming large over every newcomer, including Android.

Appetite in Congress to take action against China is high with an election looming.

A second phase of the net book wars is now looming .

He calls Stratford City, a huge shopping, office and hotel complex looming next to Stratford station, "the real prize" for his borough.

Such steps could arrest the steady increase of debt-to-GDP ratios, even after addressing those looming contingent liabilities.

In election years, the stock market typically hits a roadblock in the first half of the year, as investors worry about the looming vote.

The calculus of owning bonds is shifting, however, as economists worry looming inflation could hurt their performance.

They sat at a picture window overlooking the Spanish Steps, with Saint Peter's looming gloriously in the distance.

Still, both city and state face rising unemployment, strained social services, and looming budget shortfalls.

Looming food shortages and famine hitting Uganda's poorest in the north and east are also feeding the demand for sacrificial rituals.

Winter looming, the city's urban areas some of the temperature-sensitive tropical plants to cope with their cold.

The US navy has been deployed to help avert a looming environmental disaster.

Excellent shrimp dumplings, skin white as snow, thin as paper, translucent, meat looming, eat up slippery fresh and tempting.

Advocates of reform say this exacerbates the looming wealth gap between cities and the countryside, where land is virtually worthless.

With the summer looming, factories and residents are preparing for the most intensive energy use period of the year.

But it does send a signal that India is finally getting more serious about solving its looming energy security crisis.

Londhar walked onto the plain, the Darkstar's shadow looming before him, a poisonous mist glowing sickly green in the morning light.

It could be a looming deadline, an upcoming job interview, or lack of sleep.

But the market now turns on China, which has tiny reserves of uranium but a looming demand.

Water plants and reeds looming, it seems that there is no wind candles away from this place.

Another showdown is looming between legislators and the president.

You can either take one pill every morning as a preventative measure, or take one when you feel a headache looming.

WITH an election looming, even the driest documents can spark fury.

Japan's natural and nuclear disasters could worsen an inflation problem already looming over Asia's fast-growing economies.

The looming poll, to produce an assembly that will rewrite Nepal's constitution, was last due in November.

That attack, picking on a high-profile opponent ahead of looming state elections, looks like political opportunism.

With the 2012 Presidential election looming, the idea of springing any new taxes on the American public verges on heresy.

Political editor Nathan Gonzales says with congressional elections looming in November, Mr. Obama is under pressure to show results.

Add a looming bankruptcy to the mix and stress levels for most dealers will likely be going through the roof.

The discussion focused on a single question: was a recession looming?

For global health security, I share your deep concern about the looming threat of an influenza pandemic.

Yao's five-year contract with the Rockets, valued at $76 million, expired on June 30, with the threat of a lockout also looming.

This, in turn has led Moscow to try to keep the currency from sliding and avoid widespread fears that another 1998 crash is looming.

The club also addresses the looming issue which dare not speak its threat: the retirement of Ferguson, surely sometime soon.

Donald C. Cambre, chairman of Newmont Mining Corp. , was prepared for the looming takeover battle.

Create an editorial calendar to keep you ahead of the game, instead of rushing to identify and produce content under looming deadlines.

And with cuts looming, the charity warned the situation could get worse.

There may be a crisis looming, be ready for it.

The Reserve Bank of Australia painted its move, the first in six months, as a pre-emptive strike against looming inflation pressures.

He says he was right to tackle Social Security's looming fiscal crisis.

Some analysts say inflation in the manufacturing sector is looming amid slowing productivity gains.

U. S. stock futures indicated losses were looming for Wall Street as investors returned from the Christmas weekend.

The looming exit of the Fed is already being cited as causing some disruption in financial markets.

Then past the driver's head I could see a wall of buildings looming beyond the windshield.

The state of most state budgets is grim, with large deficits looming.

With the great threat of "godless" Communism looming in the 1950s, the country's fear of atheism also reached new heights.

Experts have long cited three decades of strict population control for China's looming demographic time bomb.

"Pricing pressure is looming, " said Jerry Lee, a fund manager at Yuanta Securities Investment Trust.

Unfortunately, there's another potential problem looming, called a deadlock.

Don't fret out as they approach: The worse thing you can do when deadlines are looming is enter panic mode.

Miss Birbili thinks giant, high-tech blades, looming over the wine-dark sea, could become an equally welcome sight.

LOOMING debt and demographic crises have many governments searching for new revenue sources.

Gavin Shuker, Luton South's Labour MP and a local boy, says he is "gutted" by this looming clash.

Looming over it all is the American descent into Vietnam.

This looming natural disaster risk will be a central challenge for the new government arriving after the July 3 elections.

The final speech was looming closer, but I felt well prepared.

Here is a look at the questions looming over the two Koreas.