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Medicaid: President's FY88 Budget

Description: This report provides background and analysis on Medicaid and discusses the President's FY88 budget.
Date: October 30, 1987
Creator: O'Sullivan, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Persian Gulf and the War Powers Debate: Issue Summary and Review of Events

Description: "This issue brief tracks chronologically the events in the Gulf with particular reference to major U.S. policy statements and actions relevant to the War Powers Resolution" (p. iii).
Date: October 19, 1987
Creator: Mark, Clyde R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Equal Rights for Women

Description: Amendments to the Constitution to provide equality of rights for women have been reintroduced in every Congress from the 67th i n 1923 to the 100th in 1987. Also proposed in recent years, although not to date in the 100th Congress, has been legislation to improve women's rights without amending the Constitution: a statue to forbid enforcement of a classification based on sex -- except where necessary to achieve a “compelling state interest, " and a measure providing for selective revision of ex… more
Date: October 14, 1987
Creator: Gladstone, Leslie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for U.S. Policy

Description: This report discusses the Iran-Iraq conflict at its present state, which has become a war of attrition with neither side capable of achieving a decisive military victory over the other in the short term. U.S. policy concerns currently are threefold: first, that Iraq, despite moves to sustain its economic and military capacities, ultimately might suffer a destabilizing defeat to the detriment of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf region; second, that future instability in Iran could open opportu… more
Date: October 14, 1987
Creator: Preece, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Parental Leave: Legislation in the 100th Congress

Description: The report discusses the argument for why America should set a standard long-term maternity leave and temporary medical disability leave. Then the opposition to this position discusses why maternity leave and medical disability leave should be decided by the employer, not the Federal government.
Date: October 1, 1987
Creator: Gladstone, Leslie W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Superconductivity: An Overview

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Date: October 1, 1987
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G. & Rowberg, Richard E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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