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Standardization efforts are under way to fix that problem.

The redevelopment of the slum area is well under way.

An American obsession with the UFO phenomenon was under way.

In the 1920s the first testicle transplants were under way.

They had prudently withdrawn as soon as the van had got fairly under way.

New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and around the U.S..

"We are doing this to facilitate the recovery efforts under way in Japan," Ellison explained.

But look beyond the Beltway and something rather more promising is under way.

These steps, she hopes, will pave the way for negotiations on a new global pact on climate change; talks could get under way as soon as December.

An enclosed area, usually on the bridge of a vessel, from which the vessel is controlled when under way.

Poultry culling is under way in northern Iraq and large Numbers of birds have already been destroyed.

The revival of Penang was already under way in 2008, but Mr Eng's new policies have helped it along.

Although efforts are under way to mitigate the worst effects of overpopulation and climate change, Fenner believes it is futile, that our fate is sealed.

Though the mechanism of the origin of life is unknown, he says, once evolution was under way no special supernatural intervention was required.

In the end, doctors got a six-month reprieve; efforts are now under way in the Senate to extend that reprieve for a further two years.

Several studies are under way to determine whether the results of some studies on animals have any relevance to cancer in human beings.

An important present goal is to transfer skills and responsibilities for outbreak response to national staff, and training efforts are under way with this goal in mind.

If the embargo goes and economic change is under way, everything else in Cuba might be up for debate in a way it has not been for the past half century.

Japanese nuclear safety regulator said on Wednesday that plans were under way to fix a piece of equipment that would allow freshwater instead of seawater to be pumped in.

In response to the accusation that he is rehashing old ideas, Singer points out that the German newspaper debate got under way without him, and he was merely responding.

The increasing number of citizen groups, business and governments taking an active interest in slowing down the destruction and pollution of the ocean is encouraging, says senior researcher and author Anne, siting a host of efforts already under way:

If only we could develop a vaccine that was effective against all strains of flu, we might prevent both annual epidemics and occasional pandemics like the one now under way.

As the 12-day general-election campaign got under way (the first to be held in August in 107 years), there was something quaintly old-fashioned in the absence of television hoopla.