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Government printing Reform

Description: This report is about Government Printing Reform, pursued through the recodification of the public printing chapters of title 44, U.S. code.
Date: January 23, 1980
Creator: Relyea, Harold
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Nuclear Power: Three Mile Island Accident-- Congressional Rseponse and Investigations

Description: This report contains background information and investigations regarding the Three Mile Island nuclear power accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It also shows the President's Commission and overall chronology of Committee responses on one of the largest nuclear power plant accident.
Date: March 6, 1980
Creator: Donnelly, Warren H. & Kramer, Donna S.
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Automobiles Imported from Japan

Description: In recent years, U.S. automotive imports from Japan have seen an increasing at an unusually rapid pace. Congress is considering measures that alleviate the situation and in June 1980 concurrently resolved to promote the competitiveness of U.S. industry in world automobile and truck markets. As a result of the restraint agreement, automobile imports from Japan dropped from 1.99 million units in 1980 to 1.91 million units in 1981 (calendar year).
Date: March 12, 1980
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
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Soviet Policy Toward the Third World

Description: Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, provided the ideological underpinning for Soviet Third world policy. Be believed that the developing nations, most of which were still part of European colonial empires, were the "weakest link in the capitalist empires and that revolution along these nations would undermine the military and economic power of the West- In 1920, he called on all Communist parties to support these revolutions, but Soviet Russia at that time vas involved in its own c… more
Date: April 2, 1980
Creator: Cooper, William H.
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Government Spending, California's Proposition 13 (1978)and 9 (1980), Congressional Proposals, and a Constitutional Convention To Balance The Budget Issue Brief Number IB78059

Description: This report discusses the issue on June 6,1978 where the voters of the state of California adopted by almost a two to one margin proposition 13, commonly called the Jarvis-Gann Initiative, which provided for a state constitutional amendment to establish a limit on local property taxation.
Date: May 1, 1980
Creator: Durbin, Thomas M.
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Afghanistan: Soviet Invasion and U.S. Response

Description: The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has raised a number of serious issues and choices for the United States. The train of events seem likely to have an important influence on overall American foreign policy in the 1980s. Reassessment of Soviet motives and of U.S. roles in the world are already in progress. Emerging American attitudes, in turn, will shape more specific policy decisions on several issues, which this issue brief discusses.
Date: May 2, 1980
Creator: Library of Congress. Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division.
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Foreign Ownership of Property in the United States: Federal and State Restrictions

Description: This report examines various legal issues raised by Federal and State laws restricting foreign ownership in U. S. property. The report examines the constitutional barriers to Federal and State laws restricting such ownership, and the possible constitutional predicates for Federal legislation regulating foreign ownership of property in the united States. The impact of treaties to which the United States is a party on both Federal and State restrictions on the rights of foreign persons to own U.S… more
Date: June 23, 1980
Creator: Zaritsky, Howard
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Commerical Television Broadcasting: An Economic Analysis of Its Structure and Competitive Alternatives

Description: This report analyzes the economic structure of both the conventional commercial television broadcasting industry as well as the significant commercial competitive alternatives. Federal Communications Commission policies and their effect on the competitive structure and development of the television industry are also discussed.
Date: June 30, 1980
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A.
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High Interest Rates: Causes and Effects

Description: This report describes the major market and policy forces that determine the general level of interest rates. The discussion is related to the recent economic experience of high interest rates and inflation, but may be generally applied to any economic environment.
Date: June 30, 1980
Creator: Leisenring, Carol
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Interest Rates Causes and Effects

Description: This report describes about market and policy forces that describe the general level of interest rates and some rules that generally applicable to any economic environment.
Date: June 30, 1980
Creator: Leisenring, Carol
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Prayer and Religion in the Public Schools: What Is, and Is Not, Permitted

Description: Few areas of constitutional law have proven to be as controversial and as subject to misinterpretation as that concerning the constitutionality of government-sponsored religious activities in public schools. In the last three decades the Supreme Court in five decisions and the State arid lower Federal courts in dozens of related decisions have attempted to articulate the 1 / meaning of the religion clauses of the First ~mendment- for a variety of such activities, including State-sponsored praye… more
Date: September 4, 1980
Creator: Ackerman, David M.
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