The humanities task force supported calendar reform and creation of a "J-term" for similar reasons.
Administration officials said it was significant that China and Russia, which recently joined the financial task force, supported the move on Thursday, in part because the task force is a technical body affiliated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The UK prime minister also promised to help repatriate about £100m of Egypt's assets - stolen by ousted president Mubarak and frozen in the UK during last year's upheavals - with a new task force supporting Arab Spring countries.
The garrison was relieved by the arrival of a Chadian task force supported by armor and, more importantly, of the French Foreign Legion and the 3rd Regiment of Marine Infantry.
He pointed to New York City's reduction in heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions "and the city's cleanest air in 50 years as a result of measures including eliminating the dirtiest heating oil from buildings and planting 800,000 new trees". L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, a member of President Obama's climate task force, supports the new EPA rules, while he trumpets local work already happening.
The statement was developed by a task force supported by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research ISPORR), as part of a broader initiative to facilitate and encourage the interchange of expert knowledge and develop best practices.
The DISCOM simultaneously supported peacekeeping operations in the Balkans and deployed a logistics task force to support Operation Iraqi Freedom I throughout Iraq.
In his first trip to Djibouti, Mr. Gates visited Camp Lemonier, a former French Foreign Legion compound that is home to the 2,000 troops in the task force and support missions.
"I've got one of the best people in government working on this problem," President Jimmy Carter said of Mr. Solomon in November 1977 after naming him chairman of an interagency task force to support the distressed steel industry.
Following its closure, the council said it had been "working hard behind the scenes" alongside local Conservative MPs Sir Roger Gale and Laura Sandys and Kent County Council as part of a task force to support retention of the airport as "an important economic asset".
"Actually, the people on my task force that support it see it more as a way to preserve the good parts of the 17th Amendment," Jones said.
