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News release: “The Department today issued a report informing consumers, businesses and policy makers about issues relating to monopolization offenses under the antitrust laws. The report, Competition and Monopoly: Single-Firm Conduct Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, September 2008, U.S. Department of Justice (215 pages, PDF) examines whether and when specific types of single-firm …
News release: “The Justice Department today announced that on Sept. 9, 2008, it will monitor the primary elections in New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), and Queens Counties, N.Y., to ensure compliance with federal voting rights statutes, and specifically the minority language provisions of the Voting Rights Act.” More information about the Voting Rights Act and …
Via Secrecy News: Knowledge Management Section, U.S. Army Field Manual 6-01.1, August 29, 2008 “This manual provides doctrine for the organization and operations of the knowledge management (KM) section. It establishes the doctrinal principles, tactics, techniques, and procedures necessary to effectively integrate KM into the operations of brigades, divisions, and corps.”
News release: “For consumers who choose to buy a new TV, EPA recommends purchasing Energy Star-qualified sets. EPA also encourages consumers to recycle their unwanted TVs, which recovers valuable materials from the circuit boards, metal wiring, leaded glass, and plastics. Last year Americans disposed of more than 20 million TVs, which represents a lost opportunity …
News release: “Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Grace Chung Becker, and other senior officials of the Department of Justice (DOJ) met today with leaders of dozens of civil rights groups, as well as national organizations representing state and local officials, secretaries of state and attorneys general …
Update to September 7, 2008 posting, Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers, additional documents available today: Freddie Mac Warrant to Purchase Common Stock Freddie Mac Certificate Freddie Mac Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement Fannie Mae Warrant to Purchase Common Stock Fannie Mae Certificate Fannie Mae Senior Preferred Stock …
Official Google Blog: “Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives…Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, …
“The Justice Department and its Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) have failed to complete significant parts of their 22-point plan to improve the performance of the nation’s Immigration Courts, according to a detailed analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). While major shortcomings were identified, the study also found areas where the proposed …
G.19 Statistical Release, September 8, 2008 – Consumer Credit: “Consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 2 percent in July. Revolving credit rose at an annual rate of 4-3/4 percent, and nonrevolving credit rose at an annual rate of 1/2 percent.”
News release: “…today’s topic is going to cover a different kind of vulnerability, not the vulnerability to identity but the vulnerability to the physical world in which we operate. That is our critical infrastructure. And I want in particular to talk about how these vulnerabilities look to me as we enter the 21st century, and …
