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Army Corps of Engineers – Peer Review Process for Civil Works Project Studies Can Be Improved, GAO-12-352, Mar 8, 2012 Defense Acquisitions – Further Actions Needed to Improve Accountability for DOD’s Inventory of Contracted Services, GAO-12-357, Apr 6, 2012: “DOD relies on contractors to perform many functions, which can offer benefits for DOD. GAOs work …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, April 9, 2012: “…An important example of our strengthened, cross-firm supervisory approach is the recently completed second annual Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR). In the CCAR, the Federal Reserve assessed the internal capital planning processes of the 19 largest bank holding companies and evaluated their capital adequacy under a very …
CDT Analysis of the European Commission’s Proposed Data Protection Regulation CDT strongly supports the use of the Regulation instrument to harmonize data protection across the common market and the renewed emphasis on stronger enforcement to provide data subjects with consistent, predictable privacy rights. CDT proposes a clarification that the Regulationʼs requirement of parental consent only …
Ben Kersey: “Microsoft and AOL …signed a deal that would see MSFT pick up 800 of AOLs patents for around $1 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close at the end of 2012, with Microsoft being able to leverage AOLs remaining 300 patents under a non-exclusive license. As it turns out, there was …
NOAA: “First quarter of 2012 also warmest on record; early March tornado outbreak is year’s first “billion dollar disaster” Record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to 1895. More than 15,000 warm …
Transportation and the New Generation Why Young People Are Driving Less and What It Means for Transportation Policy, Frontier Group, U.S. PIRG Education Fund – April 2012 “From World War II until just a few years ago, the number of miles driven annually on Americas roads steadily increased. Then, at the turn of the century, …
Alleviating Poverty in the United States: The Critical Role of SNAP Benefits, by Laura Tiehen, Dean Jolliffe, and Craig Gundersen – Economic Research Report No. (ERR-132) 30 pp, April 2012 “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the largest safety net programs in the United States, serving 44.7 million individuals in an average …
A Report Prepared for the Federal Open Market Committee by the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, March 2012 “Domestic open market operations in 2011 were shaped by continuing efforts of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to provide additional policy accommodation by adjusting the size and composition of the Federal …
The Law Library of Congress, Translation of National Legislation into English, March 2012 – Global Legal Research Center Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, and Russia International Organizations International Courts
2012 Faculty Salary Survey – Interactive Database – How much 1,251 colleges paid their faculty members Analysis: Reframing the Salary Debate – Professors pay barely budged this year. Is it time to stop blaming salaries for the rising cost of college?
