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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill this news release: “Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today continued to raise questions about BPs potential motivations to low-ball the flow rate and size of the spill, and released new documents showing BP knew the spill could have been much bigger than they claimed. The …
Airline Mergers: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of United and Continental Airlines, GAO-10-778T, May 27, 2010 Defense Management: DOD Needs to Assess Effectiveness and Determine Future Direction for Its High Performing Organizations, GAO-10-566R, May 27, 2010 Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Sustained Attention Needed to Improve Education’s Oversight of Grant Programs, GAO-10-659T, May 27, …
An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2011 Shipbuilding Plan, May 2010 “The direction of the Congress, the Department of the Navy issues annual reports that describe its plans for ship construction over the coming 30 years. The latest reportissued in February and covering fiscal years 2011 to 2040contains some significant changes in the Navys …
The Effects of Automatic Stabilizers on the Federal Budget, May 2010 “Fluctuations in the budget deficit are influenced by legislation that governs taxation and spending and by the automatic responses of revenues and outlays to developments in the economy and other factors. This report focuses on a component of the latter groupthe automatic stabilizersthat reflect …
News release: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the guidelines for applying for the new Therapeutic Discovery Project Program created by the Affordable Care Act. The program will provide tax credits and grants to small firms that show significant potential to produce new and cost-saving therapies, support good jobs and increase U.S. competitiveness…The …
National Security Strategy, May 2010 “The two decades since the end of the Cold War have been marked by both the promise and perils of change. The circle of peaceful democracies has expanded; the specter of nuclear war has lifted; major powers are at peace; the global economy has grown; commerce has stitched the fate …
News release with links to the report: “The Condition of Education 2010 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 49 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a special section on high-poverty schools. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, from the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center – Flow Rate Group Provides Preliminary Best Estimate Of Oil Flowing from BP Oil Well WSJ.com: Spill Tops Valdez Disaster – BP Pauses, Then Resumes Pumping ‘Mud’ Into Broken Well; Regulator Resigns
