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DISASTER RECOVERY IN GALVESTON:ACHILLE ALONZI
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Congressional Testimony
09-25-2009
Statement of Achille Alonzi Assistant Division Administrator, Texas Division
Office Federal Highway Administration Committee on Senate Small Business
and Entrepreneurship September 25, 2009 Chairman Landrieu and Members of
the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today
to discuss the Federal Highway Administration`s (FHWA) assistance to the
State of Texas to rebuild and recover from the damaging effects of Hurricane
Ike. FHWA has been working very closely with the Texas Department of Transportation
(TxDOT) to provide emergency relief ...
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Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: China Review International
; Edward R. Slack, Jr. Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco...the Western scholarly literature on opium in China was both numerically meager...chronologically narrow. Arthur Waley's The Opium War through Chinese Eyes and Chang Hsin...
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Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Pacific Affairs
; OPIUM, STATE, AND SOCIETY: China's Narco...8248-2361-3. The profound effects that opium had on Chinese society in the first half...description of the Guomingdang's evolving opium policy He points out that among the many...
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Opium cultivation down by a fifth in Afghanistan.
News Wire article from: UzReport
; ...issued its summary of the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008. The report shows a 19 per cent decrease in opium cultivation to 157,000 hectares, down...kg/ha (up from 42.5 kg in 2007), opium production has dropped less dramatically...
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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of World History
; Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839...Toronto for a groundbreaking conference on opium in East Asia jointly sponsored by the University...came up with the idea after discovering that opium was not only a topic of mutual interest...
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Opium and its alkaloids
Magazine article from: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
; ...reviews the history and pharmacognosy of opium, and describes the chemistry, pharmacology, and therapeutic uses of the major opium alkaloids. An abbreviated form of the...5319)]. HISTORY Sumeria and Assyria The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum L. (Papaveraceae...
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Opium present on Brandeis campus
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...Justice) (U-WIRE) WALTHAM, Mass. -- Opium: The word conjures up images of 19th century...The Quiet American." While heroin, an opium derivative, was widely publicized as the...waifish supermodels in the early 1990s, opium itself has been popularly portrayed in...
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Opium and Empire: Some Evidence from Colonial-Era Asian Stock and Commodity Markets.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ...the article assesses the impact of the opium trade on the economies of colonial Malaya...trade are significantly correlated with opium price changes, as are prices for labour...commodities such as tin and gambier. However, opium price changes explain, at most, only...
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Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Pacific Affairs
; OPIUM, EMPIRE AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950. By Carl A. Trocki. New York...take another look at the birth and development of the opium trade along with its more obvious implications. Going...
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Opium-lined coffin seized in St. Paul; A suspect told authorities the drugs were for his ulcers, the coffin is for his mother.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...Airport turned out to be a coffin containing opium, a customs and a drug agent were assigned...Yang, 41, told the agents he smoked opium every day for ulcers. The coffin was for...Alaska, he told agents. The 15 pounds of opium, which was in the lining of the coffin...
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Opium takes over entire Afghan families, villages
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain...is already curled up at the lip of the opium pipe. Beg, 65, breathes in and exhales...their daughter. The daughter blows the opium smoke into the baby's tiny mouth. The...
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