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News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today unveiled the successor to the agencys 1980s-era EDGAR database, which will give investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds. The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on a completely new …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today delivered to Congress the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Licensing Strategy Report which describes the licensing approach, the analytical tools, the research and development activities and the estimated resources required to license an advanced reactor design by 2017 and …
News release: “The Internal Revenue Service today released the summer 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, which features tax year 2005 data on the growth in profits and tax liability reported by foreign-controlled domestic corporations. According to 2005 data, there were 61,820 foreign-controlled domestic corporations (FCDCs), accounting for 1.1 percent of the total …
Met’s Crime Mapping Test Website: “The purpose of this site is to help show where crime is occurring at a local neighbourhood level. It has been developed by the MPS in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London. This is a live test site (known technically within the industry as a …
Food and Drug Administration: Approval and Oversight of the Drug Mifeprex, GAO-08-751, August 07, 2008 Supply Chain Security: CBP Works with International Entities to Promote Global Customs Security Standards and Initiatives, but Challenges Remain, GAO-08-538, August 15, 2008 Superfund: Funding and Reported Costs of Enforcement and Administration Activities, GAO-08-841R, July 18, 2008 PBGC Assets: Implementation …
“The Government has published a National Risk Register which sets out our assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of a range of different risks that may directly affect the UK. The National Risk Register is designed to increase awareness of the kinds of risks the UK faces, and encourage individuals and organisations to think …
Project will preserve Bush administration Web sites, By Jill R. Aitoro: “More than 100 million Web pages from President Bush’s second term will be preserved for historians, researchers and the public, thanks to a joint effort announced on Thursday of government agencies and non-profit libraries. The Library of Congress and Government Printing Office, in partnership …
Is Dietary Knowledge Enough? Hunger, Stress, and Other Roadblocks to Healthy Eating, By Lisa Mancino and Jean Kinsey. Economic Research Report No. (ERR-62) 29 pp, August 2008. Poor diets and rising obesity rates among Americans persist despite increased public awareness of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. This report presents a consumer demand model to …
FOIA Facts: Expanding the FOIA – Scott A. Hodes highlights the recent introduction of legislation that would eliminate the FOIA shield for the Smithsonian Institute, and the continued lack of transparency when dealing with other federal agencies.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economic News Release, Mass Layoffs Summary, August 15, 2008 “In the second quarter of 2008, employers initiated 1,534 mass layoff events that resulted in the separation of 299,886 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days, according to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor …
OIG-08-79 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Visa Security Program, July 2008 (PDF, 57 pages) New 08/15/2008 “Nineteen terrorists applied for and obtained legitimate U.S. visas in the months prior to September 11, 2001, facilitating their entry into the United States. The resulting events of 9/11 illustrate the importance of a secure visa process to …
Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge – A 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation. Report of the National Science Foundation Task Force on Cyberlearning, June 24, 2008. [Gerry McKiernan] “The Task Force on Cyberlearning was charged jointly by the Advisory Committees to the Education and Human Resources Directorate …
