Audit of Department of Justice’s Key Indicators, Audit 08-18, March 2008: “Integrating budget and performance has been an important
government initiative to ensure that performance is routinely considered in funding and management decisions, and that programs achieve expected results and work toward continual improvement. To measure performance, federal agencies develop long-term strategic plans to provide the President, Congress, and the public an overview of the challenges agencies face and their goals and objectives for meeting these challenges.”
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Daily Archives: March 26, 2008
Implementation of Certain Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund
Treasury Department, Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund: A Report to Congress in accordance with Sections 1503 and 1705(a) of the International Financial Institutions Act, Section 801(c)(1)(B) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 and Section 605(d) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act,… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Defense Contracting, DOD Personnel Clearances
Defense Contracting: Army Case Study Delineates Concerns with Use of Contractors as Contract Specialists, GAO-08-360, March 26, 2008 DOD Personnel Clearances: Questions for the Record Related to the Quality and Timeliness of Clearances, GAO-08-580R, March 25, 2008 Continue Reading
U.S. International Reserve Position
March 26, 2008 – U.S. International Reserve Position: “The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $75,146 million as of the end of that week, compared to $75,366 million as of the end of the prior week.” Continue Reading
Footnote.com and the National Archives Launch an Interactive Vietnam War Memorial
News release: “Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration held a press conference at the Archives in Washington, DC, to announce the release of an online interactive photo of the Vietnam War Memorial. In addition to releasing this unique version of the Wall, Footnote.com enables visitors to search the Wall [58,000 plus names] for… Continue Reading
26 March 2008: The world's first Document Freedom Day
“Today is Document Freedom Day: The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with roughly 200 active teams worldwide. It is a day of grassroots effort around the world to promote and build awareness for the relevance of Free Document Formats in particular and Open Standards in general…Open Standards are essential… Continue Reading
The Greening of U.S. Corporations
March 2008: “This issue of eJournal [volume 13, number 3] USA delves into what those familiar with the history of the environmental movement in the United States might see as a surprising trend the way U.S. corporations in recent years have embraced environmentally friendly ways of doing business. What prompts a corporation to go… Continue Reading
More Foul Fowl: An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens
Food & Water Watch – a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food: More Foul Fowl – An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens, March 2008: “The bacteria Salmonella is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States with nearly a million cases of salmonellosis attributed… Continue Reading
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005, by Lois A. Fingerhut, M.A., Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, and Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics: “In 2005, poisoning continued to be the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, having surpassed firearms for the first time… Continue Reading
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Report Issued
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005-2006. February 2008 37 pp. (PHS) 2008-1205 “This report is the latest in a series of periodic reviews of the work of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory committee on health information policy to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of… Continue Reading
