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Social Security and the Federal Budget: What Does Social Security's Being "Off Budget" Mean?

Description: As a result of a series of laws enacted in 1983, 1985 and 1990, Social Security is considered to be “off-budget” for federal budget purposes. While the meaning of this might seem obvious — that Social Security is not to be considered as part of the federal budget — many people are perplexed by the continued use of aggregate budget figures that include Social Security’s receipts and expenditures.
Date: July 23, 1998
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Merit Pay for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers: Background Discussion and Analysis of Issues

Description: Considerable national interest has centered on merit pay for elementary and secondary school teachers since the recent release of the educational reform reports. This merit pay paper contains a background discussion, description of alternatives, summary of current and proposed programs, and analysis of evaluation and implementation implications.
Date: September 14, 1983
Creator: Jordan, K. Forbis & Borkow, Nancy B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Space Shuttle

Description: The national Aeronautics an6 Space Administration's major manner program of the post-Apollo era is the development of a space transportation system (STS) based on a reusable space shuttle launch vehicle. Funded since FY71, the shuttle program is coming to fruition: the space shuttle successfully completed its series of four test flights on July 4, 1982. The first operational f1ig; fit was successfully completed in November 1982. The next shuttle flight has been delayed because of leaks in one o… more
Date: March 21, 1983
Creator: Smith, Marcia S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Natural Gas Policy Act

Description: The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) culminated decades of dispute over natural gas policy and was the "centerpiece of President Carter's National Energy Act. Now there are many issues of both regulatory and legislative concerns under discussion. These items were unanticipated by the framers of this difficult and delicate compromise. Generally speaking, they all stem from the fact that oil prices more than doubled in 1979 and 1980. The NGPA1s framers set wellhead gas prices within the new … more
Date: January 20, 1983
Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Benefits for Prisoners

Description: On Mar. 24, 1983, the Congress adopted, as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (P.L. 98-21), a measure to preclude virtually all incarcerated felons from receiving social security benefits of any kind, including retirement and survivor benefits. This action expanded previous legislation. In October 1980, legislation had been enacted (P.L. 96-473) that denied only social security disability benefits and student benefits to prisoners convicted of a felony.
Date: November 1, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security: Alien Beneficiaries

Description: Mounting concern about the payment of social security Benefits to aliens living abroad resulted in the enactment of legislation this year adding new restrictions on the payment of benefits to certain aliens, P.L. 98-21.
Date: November 1, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Financing

Description: The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program, the largest of the social security programs, will not have sufficient resources to meet its benefit payments on time in July 1983. Even if the program were permitted to continue to borrow from the other social security programs, the financial the shortfall would re-emerge in 1984.
Date: January 25, 1983
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart; Kollmann, Geoffrey & Miller, Nancy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Payment-in-Kind (PIK) Program

Description: Despite Federal efforts last year to curb production and dispose of surpluses, record production and continued high carryover stock levels for most commodities have depressed farm prices and significantly increased expected Federal outlays for agricultural price support programs. In an attempt to bring supply in line with demand, President Reagan announced on January 11, 1983, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would implement a payment-in-kind (PIK) program for the 1983 wheat, rice… more
Date: November 9, 1983
Creator: McMinimy, Mark
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acid Rain: Does it Contribute to Forest Decline?

Description: This minibrief describes the major hypothesis explaining why acid rain may be contributing to forest decline, along with the major arguments against this hypothesis. For additional information on acid rain and current legislation for pollutant emissions controls, see IB83016 -- Acid Rain: Current Issues, and IB83005 -- Clean Air Act: An Overview.
Date: January 24, 1985
Creator: Backiel, Adela
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sri Lanka: Background and U.S. Relations

Description: Sri Lanka is a constitutional democracy with relatively high educational and social standards. Under Sri Lanka’s hybrid parliamentary model, an elected president appoints the cabinet in consultation with the prime minister. The country’s political, social, and economic development has been seriously constrained by ethnic conflict between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil ethnic groups.
Date: August 1, 2006
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Information Bulletin, Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 1983

Description: Periodic supplement for "the regular journals of the American Chemical Society," containing annotated bibliographies of chemical documentation literature as well as information about meetings, conferences, awards, scholarships, and other news from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Literature.
Date: Spring 1983
Creator: American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Information.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Chemical Information Bulletin, Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 1983

Description: Periodic supplement for "the regular journals of the American Chemical Society," containing annotated bibliographies of chemical documentation literature as well as information about meetings, conferences, awards, scholarships, and other news from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Literature.
Date: Summer 1983
Creator: American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Information.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Chemical Information Bulletin, Volume 35, Number 3, Fall/Winter 1983

Description: Periodic supplement for "the regular journals of the American Chemical Society," containing annotated bibliographies of chemical documentation literature as well as information about meetings, conferences, awards, scholarships, and other news from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Literature.
Date: Autumn 1983
Creator: American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Information.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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What OTA Is, What OTA Does, How OTA Works

Description: Document describing the purpose, function, and makeup of the Office of Technology Assessment. Includes organization chart with handwritten annotations.
Date: March 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Library of Congress Catalogs: Newspapers in Microform, Foreign Countries, 1948-1983

Description: Union list of foreign newspapers available in microform, published between 1948 and 1983. According to the Preface: "This publication cumulates the Foreign Countries sections of the 1948-1972 publication, the 1973-1977 quinquennial, the annual issues for the 1978-1982, and the reports received in 1983." Contents include: preface, introduction, symbols, abbreviation, geographical list, and title index. Index starts on page 361.
Date: 1984
Creator: Library of Congress. Catalog Management and Publication Division
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Library of Congress Catalogs: Newspapers in Microform, United States, 1948-1983, Volume 2 P-Z and Title Index

Description: Union list of American newspapers available in microform, published between 1948 and 1983. According to the Preface in Volume 1: "This publication cumulates the United States' sections of the 1948-1972 publication, the 1973-1977 quinquennial, the annual issues for 1978-1982, and the reports received in 1983." Index starts on page 323.
Date: 1984
Creator: Library of Congress. Catalog Management and Publication Division
Partner: UNT Libraries
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