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Jones B. F., Carmody R. and Frape S. K. (1997) Variations in principal solutes and stable istopes of Cl and S on evaporation of brines form the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with programs, vol. 29, no. 6, p. 261. 

ACKNOWLEGEMENT The authors would like to thank TOYO KOATSU Co. for manufacturing the supercritical water biomass conversion system. This work has been done under the program of the Research for the Future (RFTF) of The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-RFTF 99 P01002). This research was also supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research (11876039, 1999), and a Great-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (2) (12460144, 2000) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan. 

Conversations with many colleagues around the globe contributed greatly to this review. Comments on a draft manuscript by S. Alapati, B. Bhatia, J. James, R. Rankin, and D. Sorescu were extremely helpful. The hospitality of the Division of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland, where this review was written, was much appreciated. My own work in this area has been supported by the NSF (CTS-0216170), the DOE Catalysis Futures Program, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. 

I am particularly pleased with the assistance we have received from the Committee on Civil Defense of the American Chemical Society. The recommendations your Committee made to me in the Summary Report of October 19, 1959, were of great value in the formulation of the chemical, biological, and radiological warfare defense program. Enclosed is a paper prepared by my staff showing the progress we have made toward meeting the recommendations. 

As the world realized that IDD has become a major public health threat to millions of people, and that a person s mental ability directly affects his or her contribution to society and a nation s development, the Chinese government made a great commitment to the world in 1991 to eliminate IDD in China by 2000. The National Advocacy Meeting to Eliminate IDD by the Year 2000 in China, hosted by the state council in September 1993, was the catalyst for the National IDD Elimination Program. The key national IDD elimination strategies include ... 

For example, I have discussed with associates in Japan their lifetime employment policies. As you know, the unemployment rate in Japan is normally less than 2% and when it exceeds this there is great concern. Some Japanese question their lifetime employment policy. It is my view that we in the United States have a lifetime employment system, however, the difference is that in Japan it is managed and controlled by the private sector, while in the United States it is managed and controlled, to a major extent, by the public sector through welfare programs, food stamps, etc. It takes little imagination to consider which is more costly to a society, both in terms of dollars or yen and, as important, in pride and utilization of the human resource. 

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