But Secretary General Kofi Annan, watching Washington's confrontation with Saddam Hussein intensify, has quietly urged his organization to accelerate its preparations to handle a major postwar crisis in Iraq.
Across the metropolitan region, government agencies, hospitals and health care workers are making preparations to handle an outbreak of SARS that many officials consider almost inevitable.
26 NEW YORK/REGION 35-41 Health OforcialSARS Outbreak Governmentfor Sagenciesreak Government agencies, hospitals and health care workers across the metropolitan region are making preparations to handle an outbreak of SARS that many officials consider almost inevitable.
Among various techniques, the sol gel approach is advantageous due to its low cost, amenable for large area preparation, and easy to handle properties, out of which the spin-coating and dip-coating techniques are widely used.
They require little data preparation and are able to handle both numerical and categorical data.
A variety of 96 microplates were used in the HTS reactor system for both preparation and activity testing to handle 96 catalyst samples simultaneously.
First, England was coming out of a recession and English political leaders felt their countrymen wouldn't be able to handle preparation for war and economic recovery, shouldn't be asked to sacrifice.
A score of zero can be assigned for five of the items if the patient did not perform the activity in question prior to the onset of illness: food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, ability to handle finances, and responsibility for medications.
In the area of proteomics and genomics, for instance, major opportunities exist for the miniaturization and integration of sample preparation steps in order to handle limited amounts of clinical samples.
