UNT Libraries Government Documents Department - 88 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

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.
open access

United States Policy Toward Vietnam: A Summary Review of It's History

Description: This study describes the major elements of United States policy in the Vietnam War. It covers the period from the end of World War II to the fall of Saigon in April of 1975, with post-1975 developments. It emphasizes the changes in U.S. policy and American involvement.
Date: January 23, 1985
Creator: Nikach, Larry A.; Collier, Ellen C. & Haggard, M. T.
open access

Wind Energy 1980

Description: This report is about commercialization of wind energy, funding of the federal wind energy program, and the potential contribution wind energy towards meeting U.S energy needs.
Date: October 31, 1980
Creator: Sissine, Fred; Barbara, Luxenberg & Glen, Moore
open access

Clean Air Act Amendments And The 97th Congress

Description: This report concerns the 97th Congress reviewing proposals for substantive amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the re-authorization of the CAA.
Date: August 17, 1981
Creator: Blodgett, John E.
open access

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.
open access

Addition to the Major Issue File

Description: This report discusses the lists of those new issue briefs that have been added to the major issues file since the last issue of the CRS update.
Date: February 16, 1988
Creator: Issue Brief Section
open access

Land Disposal Policies of the Principal Federal Land Management Agencies

Description: This report reviews the history of public land disposal and the location and uses of present Federal Public Lands. Land disposal policies and practices of agencies of the Department of Agriculture, Defense and the Interior, and of the General Services Administration are discussed.
Date: July 1, 1981
Creator: Huston, Cynthia E.
open access

Presidential emergency powers over domestic affairs. 1980

Description: This report will analyse the authority of the Chief Executive to declare a state of emergency, and will then discuss some of the more significant actions that the President may take under these conditions.
Date: September 25, 1980
Creator: Raymond, Natter
open access

CRS Studies in the Public Domain

Description: Abstract: "A subject listing of those Congressional Research service studies and reports which have been printed in some form by the U.S. Government printing office and have been made publicly available between June 1 and November 30, 1981."
Date: November 1981
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
open access

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.
open access

Imported Automobiles in the United States: Their Rising Market Share and the Macroeconomic Impact of a Proposed Import Restriction

Description: After two generations of almost unchallenged supremacy, the U.S. auto industry has recently faced plummeting sales, rising competition from imports, and mounting requirements for capital investment and structural change. This has resulted in massive spilling of red ink in the industry's profit and loss columns, further financial pressures on the ailing Chrysler Corporation, layoffs of nearly 250,000 workers (as of August 4, 1980 in the automotive industry alone according to the United Auto Work… more
Date: September 15, 1980
Creator: Nanto, Dick K. & Elwell, Craig
open access

Metropolitan School Desegregation

Description: Interest in desegregating schools throughout multi-district metropolitan areas has increased as a result of litigation in the Federal courts concerning cross-district integration of students in Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, and W Wilmington metropolitan areas. Experience with school desegregation efforts involving a central city school district and its suburban independent school districts is very limited. Throughout the Southeast, school districts generally cover larger geographical areas… more
Date: December 15, 1980
Creator: Jordan, K. Forbis & Dale, Charles V.
open access

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
open access

Gun Control

Description: This report provides basic firearms-related issues and a summary of legislative action.
Date: August 11, 1982
Creator: Hogan, Harry L.
Back to Top of Screen