Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain, GAO-08-384, February 15, 2008 Defense Acquisitions: Progress Made in Fielding Missile Defense, but Program Is Short of Meeting Goals, GAO-08-448, March 14, 2008 Global War on Terrorism: Reported Obligations… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Treasury International Capital Data for January
Treasury International Capital (TIC) Data for January – Monthly Reports on Cross-Border Financial Flows (Billions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted) Continue Reading
Supreme Court to Hear DC Gun Case
PR Newswire: “Just two days after a new Washington Post national poll found that 59 percent of the American public supports restrictions identical to Washington, DC’s gun laws — which ban handgun possession and require that legally possessed rifles and shotguns be either disassembled or secured with a trigger lock — the U.S. Supreme Court… Continue Reading
Convergence in Global Food Demand and Delivery
Convergence in Global Food Demand and Delivery, By Anita Regmi, Hiroyuki Takeshima, and Laurian Unnevehr, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Report No. (ERR-56) 39 pages, March 2008: “Using food expenditures and food sales data over 1990-2004, this report examines whether food consumption and delivery trends are converging across 47 high- and middle-income countries. Middle-income… Continue Reading
CDC Helps Launch Healthy People 2020 Collaboration
“On March 17, CDC hosted the first of five Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regional meetings to discuss the Healthy People 2020 framework. Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Since 1979, Healthy People has set and monitored national health objectives to meet a broad range of… Continue Reading
Chief Justice Roberts Approves Immediate Release of Oral Argument For District of Columbia v. Heller
“On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, C-SPAN will air the Supreme Court oral argument of District of Columbia v. Heller which the Court is scheduled to hear that day. The immediate release of the audio recording of the Court’s argument was in response to a request by C-SPAN (Release time is approximately 11:15 A.M.). The Court… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve announces two initiatives designed to bolster market liquidity and promote orderly market functioning
News release: “The Federal Reserve on Sunday announced two initiatives designed to bolster market liquidity and promote orderly market functioning. Liquid, well-functioning markets are essential for the promotion of economic growth. First, the Federal Reserve Board voted unanimously to authorize the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to create a lending facility to improve the… Continue Reading
More People See Federal Government as Secretive; Want to Know Candidates' Stand on Transparency
“Three-quarters of American adults view the federal government as secretive, and nearly nine in 10 say it’s important to know presidential and congressional candidates’ positions on open government when deciding who to vote for, according to a Sunshine Week survey by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University. The survey shows a significant increase over… Continue Reading
Gov't Requirements for Banks to Provide Suspicious Activity Reports
Newsweek: Unintended Consequences – Spitzer got snagged by the fine print of the Patriot Act “The Patriot Act gave the FBI new powers to snoop on suspected terrorists. In the fine print were provisions that gave the Treasury Department authority to demand more information from banks about their customers’ financial transactions. Congress wanted to help… Continue Reading
State of the News Media 2008
Project for Excellence in Journalism – State of the News Media 2008 – Preface: “The State of the News Media 2008 is the fifth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism. Its goal is to gather in one place as much data as possible about all the major sectors… Continue Reading
McClatchy Reports on War's Toll: Five Years in Iraq
War’s Toll: Five Years in Iraq, Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers. Continue Reading
IDC's Worldwide Software Pricing and Licensing Taxonomy and Report Guide, 2008
IDC’s Worldwide Software Pricing and Licensing Taxonomy and Report Guide, 2008, Mar 2008, Doc #210950: “This IDC study defines the classification scheme, or taxonomy, used by IDC’s Global Software Business Strategies group to analyze the software licensing strategies of vendors and requirements of end-user organizations. IDC’s software pricing and licensing taxonomy represents a fundamental view… Continue Reading
