The Obama Administration has announced as a prominent strand of its foreign policy that it intends to "pivot" from the costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to a new era of investments in Asia.
The company said the 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions it intends to cut from its supply chain by the end of 2015 is 150 percent of the estimated growth in carbon emissions from its own operations over the next five years.
Sirius needs to launch two more satellites, while XM Satellite Radio also needs to launch both of its two planned satellites, which it intends to do from a mobile launching site in the Pacific Ocean -- the first later this year.
Starting construction on the Alaska radar sets America on a path that would require it to give notice later this year that it intends to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
So far, the White House has not come across anything that it intends to withhold from any review by the committee, Mr. Gonzales said.
Mr. Yogarajah said that BHP has consistently indicated that it intends to withdraw from the sales and marketing side of Canpotex, which acts as a cartel, but that it is interested in using the group's transportation systems.
It intends to expand from about 8,000 civilians to more than 16,000, many of them private contractors, but Congress has not yet approved the money to pay for it.
The Treasury has not said how much money it intends to raise from individuals; first it wants to select about five fund managers to participate in the program to buy beaten-down securities.
If an accord can not be reached by the end of this year, the official quoted the caution as saying, the United States will give formal notice that it intends to withdraw from the treaty, after the required six-month waiting period.
Russia has notified the Clinton administration that it intends to withdraw from a 1995 agreement negotiated by Vice President Al Gore limiting Russian sales of tanks and other conventional weapons to Iran, officials said.
