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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Nevertheless, there were some spectacular failures.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). Safe routes to school programs. It has since been significantly improved.

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

the market expectation that the government would not let the companies fail) [2] rather than their own capital strength to sustain the near-government quality market access needed for their business model to work. However, it never made it past Senate Banking Committee approval in 2014. government (i.e.,