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Follow up to June 18, 2008 posting, GAO Sustains Boeing Bid Protest, the GAO Bid Protest Decision (The decision was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release.) “Protest is sustained, where the agency, in making the award decision, did not assess the relative merits of the proposals …
News release: “This years updated version of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) compiled by World Bank researchers shows many developing country governments making important gains in control of corruption, and some of them matching rich country performance in overall governance measures…This years study is the seventh update of the WGI, a decade-long effort by the …
News release: “Handling about 550,000 copyright claims annually, the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress is making it much easier for the public to register and protect its collective creativity. On July 1, the Copyright Office will enter the next phase in the implementation of its multi-year business process re-engineering effort to modernize …
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 25 June 2008. National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030. Statement for the Record of Dr. Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. “We …
Monthly Energy Review (06/25/2008): “EIA’s primary report of recent energy statistics: total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; and data unit conversions. In the first quarter of 2008, total net imports of energy as a share of consumption in the …
Report #:DOE/EIA-0484(2008) – Release Date: June 2008 “World marketed energy consumption is projected to increase by 57 percent from 2004 to 2030. Total energy demand in the non-OECD countries increases by 95 percent, compared with an increase of 24 percent in the OECD countries. In the IEO2008 reference casewhich reflects a scenario where current laws …
Border Security: State Department Expects to Meet Projected Surge in Demand for Visas and Passports in Mexico, GAO-08-931T, June 25, 2008 Coast Guard: Change in Course Improves Deepwater Management and Oversight, but Outcome Still Uncertain, GAO-08-745, June 24, 2008 Medicare Advantage Organizations: Actual Expenses and Profits Compared to Projections for 2005, GAO-08-827R, June 24, 2008 …
Pew Internet news release: “The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four Digital Natives lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, The Machine is Us/ing Us, presented the “Anthropology of YouTube” to a packed, fascinated and amused audience on Monday…Wesch said that there are now well over 200,000 three-minute …
