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...shortcomings continue to plague the IG's work too; their own auditors never left the capital of Islamabad, also due to security concerns - an institutional blindness that was the focus of some pointed questions during a recent House National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, chaired by Democratic Representative John Tierney of Massachusetts. For its part, RTI says it is "proud" of what it insists was a successful project. "In retrospect, RTI and USAID could and should have done a better job in promoting its success," said a company statement. "We think in time these successes will be better understood...
...Craig Fugate is widely considered to be among the very best emergency managers in the country, and Florida is being looked upon as one of the very best prepared states." - Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Florida Trend magazine...
...excited me to consider the American analogy in the cases of Africa and African countries,” said Matthew R. Tierney ’09 “What if there are these foundations [set up] to allow people in the developing world to network together and share ideas...
...drug bust, four NYPD officers are ambushed and killed. The men were under the command of Capt. Francis Tierney (Emmerich), who comes from a family of Irish cops: his dad (Voight), brother Ray (Norton) and brother-in-law Jimmy Egan (Ferrell) are all on the force. So when Ray reluctantly takes the job of investigating the crime, his sleuthing leads to evidence of an inside job, and forces him into conflict with one or two bad apples in the Tierney brood. With its twisty plot that has Ray trekking through the lower depths of Harlem and Brooklyn, and the higher...
...first we need to understand that disasters aren't just caused by FEMA and greenhouse gases. Says Tierney: "I don't think that people have an understanding of questions they should be asking - about where they live, about design and construction, about building inspection, fire protection. These just aren't things that are on people's minds...