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DOD Animal Research: Improvements Needed in Quality of Biomedical Research Database

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined several issues related to the Department of Defense's (DOD) administration of its animal research programs, focusing on: (1) the extent to which DOD's research using animals addresses validated military objectives, does not unnecessarily duplicate work done elsewhere, and incorporates methods to reduce, replace, and refine the use of animals; and (2) problems w… more
Date: December 14, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Airport Improvement Program: FAA Complying With Requirement for Local Involvement in Noise Mitigation Projects

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined whether the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must enforce grant assurance as a condition of providing noise mitigation grants to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport."
Date: December 28, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Trade: Status of the Defense Export Loan Guarantee Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense Export Loan Guarantee (DELG) Program, focusing on: (1) the level of program activity to date; (2) the program's financial status; (3) other sources of financing available to borrowing countries; (4) comparing DELG Program characteristics with other U.S. government export financing programs; and (5) examining issues rela… more
Date: December 21, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Department of Agriculture: Administrative Streamlining Is Expected to Continue Through 2002

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) progress in streamlining its administrative operations, focusing on USDA's efforts to: (1) reduce the number of administrative staff departmentwide; (2) consolidate and streamline administrative support structures for seven field-based agencies, particularly at the state office level; and (3) measure the sav… more
Date: December 11, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Specialty Care: Heart Attack Survivors Treated by Cardiologists More Likely to Take Recommended Drugs

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the potential differences in treatment patterns for health maintenance organizations (HMO) patients treated by specialists and those treated by generalist physicians, focusing on: (1) the proportion of Medicare heart attack survivors enrolled in HMOs who take cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta-blockers, and aspirin; and (2) whether Medicare heart attack survivors… more
Date: December 4, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IRS Systems Security: Although Significant Improvements Made, Tax Processing Operations and Data Still at Serious Risk

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) progress in correcting serious computer security weaknesses at five IRS facilities, focusing on: (1) additional security weaknesses identified at the five facilities and at an IRS facility not included in GAO's previous report; and (2) steps IRS has taken or plans to take to implement a service-wide computer security managem… more
Date: December 14, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Trade: U.S. Contractors Employ Diverse Activities To Meet Offset Obligations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the types of activities undertaken by U.S. contractors to meet offset obligations associated with the sale of defense equipment to various foreign governments."
Date: December 18, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food Stamp Program: Information on Employment and Training Activities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the number of able-bodied adults without dependents who are receiving food stamp benefits, the number who are required to meet the work requirements, and the number who are exempted from the requirements; (2) the number of able-bodied adults without dependents participating in qualifying employment and training or Workfare programs; and (3) … more
Date: December 14, 1998
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Au Pair Program

Description: Legislation passed late in the 103rd Congress granted the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) authority to design and implement more rigorous rules regulating the au pair program. In 1997, the au pair program received considerable media attention as a result of the Louise Woodward court case regarding possible involvement of an au pair in the death of a child in Massachusetts. The U.S. Information Agency amended existing federal regulations for the au pair program in September 1997 to underscore the… more
Date: January 30, 1998
Creator: Epstein, Susan B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Weir Property Habitat Evaluation: Project Report

Description: A habitat evaluation of the Weir property, an approximately 200-acre in holding of private property within the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge), was conducted using the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) methodology. The Weir property consists of two separate parcels, an upper unit of 40 acres and a 160-acre lower unit. Evaluation species were ruffed grouse and white-tailed deer. Life requisites evaluated were available browse for white-tailed deer and winter food and fall… more
Date: February 1998
Creator: Smith, Maureen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lateral Ramps in the Folded Appalachians and in Overthrust Belts Worldwide—A Fundamental Element of Thrust-Belt Architecture

Description: A report about lateral ramps which are zones where décollements change stratigraphic level along a strike. This report suggests that many cross-strike features may be underlain by lateral ramps that serve to transfer décollements from one stratigraphic level to another in the same manner as frontal ramp, but in a direction normal to the strike of the fold belt.
Date: 1998
Creator: Pohn, Howard A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ideas for Privatizing Social Security

Description: This report summarizes the proposals that have emerged and the issues surrounding them.
Date: April 6, 1998
Creator: Koitz, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources

Description: This report is a guide to basic sources useful in tracking federal legislation and regulations. It has been prepared primarily for the use of constituents who wish to follow the federal government's legislative or regulatory activities at the local level. Brief annotations for the selected printed, telephone, electronic, and related sources describe their scope, focus, and frequency, include publisher contact information, and provide Internet addresses where available.
Date: May 7, 1998
Creator: Davis, Carol D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy R&D in the United States

Description: In 1997, the US public and private sectors invested $205.7 billion in R and D. Private sector investments in R&D increased 34% between 1990 and 1997; over the same period the federal government decreased its expenditures by 15% in real terms. Projections of outyear federal budgets indicate the federal government will continue to reduce its investments in R&D for the foreseeable future. Defense R&D continues to be the largest area of concentration for federal government's R&D inv… more
Date: December 1, 1998
Creator: Dooley, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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