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U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-year 2006 (168 pages, PDF). This final report presents the findings of the annual survey as of December 31, 2006. There is a Press Release dated 11/30/2007. Via AP: Treasury site listing share of national debt held by foreigners and the national debt to the penny.
“Latest edition, Our Flag (109th Congress, 2nd Session, 56 pages, PDF). This Congressional publication briefly describes the history of the flag, and sets forth the practices and observances appropriate to its display.”
“A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools. This report presents …
Am Law 200 Managing Partners Issue Fog Advisory for 2008, David Bario, The American Lawyer, 12-03-2007 [note: free registration required to read the links that follow): “Each fall, when this magazine surveys the leaders of The Am Law 200 about the state of their firms, the responses are awash in sunny optimism — at least, …
IRS Fall 2007 Statistics of Income Bulletin: “Seven articles from the fall 2007 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin (IRS Publication 1136) are now available. The articles present individual income tax data for Tax Year 2005; partnership data for Tax Year 2005; tax-exempt governmental and private activity bond data for Calendar Year 2005; private …
Press release: “World Economic Forum today announced 39 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2008. The companies products and services include identity management on the Internet, understanding of individuals genetic information, robotic radiosurgery, pollution control materials, low-cost remote diagnosis solutions, virtual interface technologies, wiki-based projects and next generation business intelligence solutions. Twenty-three of the Technology …
A CBO Paper: Modernizing the Army’s Rotary-Wing Aviation Fleet, November 2007 (39 pages, PDF). “The United States Armys rotary-wing aviation fleet numbers about 3,500 aircraft, including utility, cargo, attack, and reconnaissance helicopters. Between now and 2030, the Army is planning to modernize the fleet to sustain and improve its capabilities, a task the Congressional Budget …
Press release: “Violent and property crime rates at the nations schools during 2005 57 such crimes per 1,000 students age 12 or older were statistically unchanged from the 2004 rate of 55 victimizations per 1,000 students, according to a new report by the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Department …
The website GovernmentAttic.org has posted a complete index of DOJ Legal Counsel Opinions from 1998 through the present here.
Project for Excellence in Journalism: “After four years of war in Iraq, the journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment, but they believe they have done a better job of covering the American military and the insurgency than they have the lives of ordinary Iraqis. And they do …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: “Presents findings on the pretrial release phase of the criminal justice process using data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the 75 largest U.S. counties in May during even-numbered years from 1990 to 2004. It includes trends on pretrial release rates and the types of release used. …
Library of Congress: The period for public comment on the report is open until December 15, 2007. Comments can be submitted via the Web site at http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/contact/. Electronic submission of comments is encouraged. View Letter from the Working Group November 30, 2007 Read Draft Final Report of the Working Group
