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...Steve Crocker, president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, which represents senior managers working in the sector in local government, said the failure to provide early interventions...
...Steve Bates, chief executive of the UK BioIndustry Association, says different regions have different specialisms....
...“Rising landfill tax is only one element,” said Steve Lee, chief executive of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management....
...“Many of the recent concerns expressed about the new top-level domain program are more about ‘perceived’ problems than actual deficiencies,” says Steve Crocker, chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned...
...Steve Crocker, Icann’s newly elected chairman, has his own favourite quote: “It is not the end, not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning.”...
...Steve Jobs has returned to Apple as its active chief executive a few days ahead of the scheduled end of his medical leave, the company indicated on Monday....
...Steve Linford, the organisation’s founder, has been advised by police not to open unexpected packages arriving at his home....
...His father Steve is a swimming coach but it was his mother, Ileana, who guided his first strokes. His college career was outstanding, twice being named NCAA swimmer of the year....
...“The McCain camp has made the mistake of assuming the gains from the surge would continue in a straight line,” says Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation....
...The remarks are likely to be a preview of what Mr Crocker and General David Petraeus, top commander in Iraq, will say in a report to the US Congress scheduled for mid-September....
...Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister, yesterday cautioned against expecting any “magical solutions” from the Petraeus/Crocker assessments....
...Mr Crocker also used that opportunity to admonish Iran. However, the discussion of a committee may indicate that the parties have moved beyond the exchange of accusations....
...Nationwide, the number of teams has jumped from 10 to 25 this year, Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Iraq, told Congress in mid-September....
...Nonetheless, Iraq’s failure to meet those benchmarks could weigh heavily in mid-September, when the senior US commander in the country, General David Petraeus, and the US ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker...
...Mr Crocker was at pains to stress that the meeting was not a bilateral US-Iranian discussion, and that the sole focus had been Iraq....
...Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Baghdad, is likely to cite the August deal in US Congress testimony this week....
...The parliament is due to reconvene on September 4, just two weeks before the top US general in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and Washington’s envoy to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, are due to report to Congress...
...A statement from Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Iraq, and General David Petraeus, military commander, declared the attack to be “a deliberate attempt by al-Qaeda to sow dissent and inflame sectarian strife...
...Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Baghdad, told the Financial Times at a conference in Egypt on Friday that he believed Mr Maliki should at least attempt to pass the legislation, even if he encountered opposition...
...Mr Khalilzad has been nominated to become the US ambassador to the United Nations, and is expected to be replaced in Baghdad by incoming ambassador Ryan Crocker....
...there are going to be challenges in the council of representatives [parliament], but you have to get [the reconciliation laws] to the council of representatives before it can face the challenges,” Ryan Crocker...
...His replacement may be Ryan Crocker, who is ambassador to Pakistan....
...Mr Bush emerges, flanked by Gen David Petraeus, the architect of the surge in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador in Baghdad....
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