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Press release: “Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt…The top …
Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook October 2007 (10/09/2007): “Quarterly short-term energy projections for supply, demand, and price for the major fuels, focusing on the winter fuels, through 2008 for the U.S. International oil forecasts are included.”
Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Homeland Security – A Comprehensive Guide For Securing the Homeland: “Today, the President issued an updated National Strategy for Homeland Security, which will serve to guide, organize, and unify our Nation’s homeland security efforts. This Strategy is a national strategy not a Federal strategy and articulates our approach …
Press release: “American Electric Power has agreed to cut 813,000 tons of air pollutants annually at an estimated cost of more than $4.6 billion, pay a $15 million penalty, and spend $60 million on projects to mitigate the adverse effects of its past excess emissions. The record settlement was announced today by the Department of …
U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment, by Olga Oliker, Keith Crane, Audra K. Grant, Terrence K. Kelly, Andrew Rathmell, David Brannan (104 pages, PDF): “This book evaluates the costs and benefits of five alternative strategies the United States could pursue in Iraq. The authors argue that, as long as the United States remains in …
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced The Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007 the RESTORE Act,in an effort to address concerns about civil liberty protections in the hastily-enacted Protect America Act that was signed into …
Ryan White Care Act: Impact of Legislative Funding Proposal on Urban Areas, GAO-08-137R, October 5, 2007 Prescription Drugs: Trends in Usual and Customary Prices for Drugs Frequently Used by Medicare and Non-Medicare Health Insurance Enrollees, GAO-07-1201R, September 7, 2007 Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: U.S. Ministry Capacity Development Efforts Need an Overall Integrated Strategy to Guide …
“Division of Corporation Finance, Executive Summary: The Division of Corporation Finance has completed its initial review of the executive compensation and related disclosure of 350 public companies under the Securities and Exchange Commissions new and revised rules relating to executive compensation disclosure.”
“On Tuesday, the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation launched a new collaborative, citizen-driven project on Congresspedia to build profiles on the hundreds of challengers for congressional seats, which will compliment the existing profiles on every member of Congress. The project is non-partisan and, in true open-source fashion, is free for anyone …
Muslim Asylum Claims in U.S. Courts: A Legal Examination, by Jeffrey Breinholt, Published on October 8, 2007.
“Statistics show that 12 % to 15 % of women in Europe face violence in the home every day. The Council of Europe Europes leading human rights organisation – has decided it is time it stopped. It has launched a campaign in its member countries to criminalise domestic violence, ensure support for victims and …
62 Days + Almost 3 Billion Pings + New Visualization Scheme = the First Internet Census Since 1982: “Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on …
