Day archives: November 10th, 2010

Obama's Bi-partisan Fiscal Commission Presents Draft Plan

National Journal: “The chairmen of President Obama’s fiscal commission proposed a sweeping collection of spending cuts and tax increases today in a bid to jolt the panel’s 16 other members away from their Republican and Democratic orthodoxies. The proposals call for significant reductions in future Social Security benefits — an untouchable issue for many Democrats …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FDA Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels

News release: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) requires that cigarette packages and advertisements have larger and more visible graphic health warnings. FDA issued a proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements. These …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Financial Audit IRS, Space Acquisitions, NATO Partnerships, Financial Audit BPD, FDA/Heparin Contamination

Financial Audit: IRS’s Fiscal Years 2010 and 2009 Financial Statements, GAO-11-142, November 10, 2010 Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program, GAO-11-21, November 10, 2010 NATO Partnerships: DOD Needs to Assess U.S. Assistance in Response to Changes to the Partnership for Peace Program, GAO-10-1015, September 30, 2010 Financial …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Statistical Evidence on the Gender Gap in Law Firm Partner Compensation

Angel, Marina, Whang, Eun-Young, Banker, Rajiv D. and Lopez, Joseph, Statistical Evidence on the Gender Gap in Law Firm Partner Compensation (September 9, 2010). Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-24. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1674630 “Our study compiled the largest research sample on the gender gap in compensation at the 200 largest law firms …

Subjects: Marketing

Intel – 2010 HIMSS Security Survey

2010 HIMSS Security Survey Sponsored by Intel, Final Report, November 3, 2010 “Now in its third year, the 2010 HIMSS Security Survey [Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society], sponsored by Intel reports the opinions of information technology (IT) and security professionals from healthcare provider organizations across the U.S. regarding key issues surrounding the tools and …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy