Though a number of federal agencies have established bioterrorism response teams and procedures, and there has been steady improvement in laboratory facilities around the country to test and identify biological agents, the result is a patchwork, set against a larger patchwork of cities, counties and states with their own reporting requirements and plans.
"They are failing in environmental management in a very gross way". The findings highlight a weak spot in a larger patchwork of state and local agencies charged with keeping the groundwater, bays and soils free of dangerous contaminants, especially those in areas near urban dwellers.
Conrad MancAmerican artistrican artist linked to Abstract Expressionism and known for making large patchwork collages of cut pieces of canvas, died Tuesday at his home in Parma, Italy.
While seeming mundane, the large patchwork of squares and rectangles of fabric that constitutes another piece has the painstaking proportional sensitivity of a field of tiny squares painted by Paul Klee, or a Schwitters collage.
His financial affairs, too, were largely unsettled -- he had already moved to Giverny, but only as a tenant, and would still have to work hard for another five years before he had the funds to buy the house for himself and his large patchwork family.
The trend is likely to grow throughout 2013 as the Afghan countryside becomes a much larger patchwork of areas contested between Taliban and government forces than it is today.
Happily, the guest vocalists (Father John Misty's Josh Tillman, Jennifer Herrema once of Royal Trux, Toro y Moi) aren't too front-and-centre, but largely absorbed into the larger patchwork of sounds.
A tailor teaches embroidery and patchwork in a large schoolroom with sewing machines and a chalkboard.
But Mr. Howbert, the city official, noted that those vacancies were a patchwork, not a large contiguous piece of land.
For a patchwork of reasons, a large number of Latinos in the capital simply aren't using NHS services.
