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Defense Health Care: Tri-Service Strategy Needed to Justify Medical Resources for Readiness and Peacetime Care

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) military health system (MHS), focusing on: (1) the need for national capital area (NCA) military treatment facilities (MTF) and DOD's strategy for assessing such needs; (2) identifying any obstacles hindering DOD's ability to make coherent needs assessments; and (3) whether current care coordination among NCA M… more
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Improvements Needed to Prevent Excess Purchases by the Air Force

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed inventory the Air Force had on contract that was excess to current operating requirements."
Date: November 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Budget Surpluses: Experiences of Other Nations and Implications for the United States

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the experience of six nations--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom--with budget surpluses, focusing on: (1) how they achieved budget surpluses and what their fiscal policies were during periods of surplus; (2) how they addressed long-term budgetary pressures; (3) how they adapted their budget process during a p… more
Date: November 2, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Controls: International Space Station Technology Transfers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) implementation of federal export control regulations for International Space Station technology transfers, focusing on: (1) the licenses granted to NASA to export space station-related technology and commodities and plans to export encryption technology; (2) the results of internal and external assessme… more
Date: November 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Large Bank Mergers: Fair Lending Review Could be Enhanced With Better Coordination

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed large bank holding company mergers and regulatory enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, focusing on the: (1) fair lending issues raid by consumer and community groups during the application process for six large bank holding company mergers; and (2) Federal Reserve Board's (FRB) consideration of those issues."
Date: November 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nursing Home Care: Enhanced HCFA Oversight of State Programs Would Better Ensure Quality

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 Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) oversight programs of state agencies' nursing home survey process, focusing on the: (1) effectiveness of HCFA's approaches to assessing state agency performance; (2) extent to which HCFA's regional offices vary in their application of these approaches; and (3) the corrective actions available to H… more
Date: November 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security: Evaluating Reform Proposals

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the potential budgetary and economic effects of several Social Security reform proposals."
Date: November 4, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Controls: Statutory Reporting Requirements for Computers Not Fully Addressed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the executive branch's report on high performance computer export controls, focusing on: (1) whether the July 1999 report to Congress satisfied the requirements of the Fiscal Year 1998 National Defense Authorization Act; (2) whether the report was factually supported; and (3) how many high performance computers at the current control levels have been approved f… more
Date: November 5, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Postal Service: Changes Made to Improve Acceptance Controls for Business Mail

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 Postal Service's acceptance controls for business mail, focusing on whether the Service had made the changes GAO recommended previously and whether those changes were working."
Date: November 9, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foster Care: Effectiveness of Independent Living Services Unknown

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 independent living program (ILP), focusing on: (1) the extent of services provided under ILPs; and (2) what is known about the effect of these services on youths' ability to live on their own."
Date: November 10, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Logistics: Army Should Assess Cost and Benefits of the Workload Performance System Expansion

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Army's study of its master plan for implementing its Workload Performance System, focusing on the: (1) Army's progress in developing and implementing the workload performance system; and (2) extent to which the Army's April 1999 report to the House Committee on National Security addresses an overall master plan for implementing the system, including the s… more
Date: November 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Computers: U.S. Space Command's Management of Its Year 2000 Operational Testing

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 Defense's management of various year 2000-related end-to-end testing activities, focusing on: (1) the U.S. Space Command's management of its end-to-end test of space control systems essential to major theater war; and (2) what the results of this test show with respect to operational risks and readiness."
Date: November 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Computers: U.S. Transportation Command's Management of Y2K Operational Testing

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 U.S. Transportation Command's (TRANSCOM) year 2000-related end-to-end testing activities, focusing on TRANSCOM's management of its end-to-end test of its ability to plan and execute joint major theater war (MTW) deployment operations."
Date: November 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Education and Care: Early Childhood Programs and Services for Low-Income Families

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on federal child care funding, focusing on: (1) programs and services funded at the federal and state levels that directly provide early childhood care and education for the general population of low-income children up to age 5; (2) state and local assessments of the relative difficulty low-income parents face in obtaining care for their children; a… more
Date: November 15, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consumer Product Safety Commission: Additional Steps Needed to Assess Fire Hazards of Upholstered Furniture

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) study on whether to set a flammability standard for sofas, chairs, and other upholstered furniture, focusing on the: (1) methodology CPSC used to estimate the magnitude of the fire hazard that the standard would address; and (2) reliability of this methodology for producing sound estimates of the … more
Date: November 17, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Improved Management Framework Needed to Guide Air Force Best Practice Initiatives

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Air Force's best practices implementation schedule for the acquisition and distribution of secondary inventory items, focusing on: (1) the extent to which the schedule responds to the provisions of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999; and (2) specific elements of a management framework needed for effective implementa… more
Date: November 18, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foster Care: HHS Could Better Facilitate the Interjurisdictional Adoption Process

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on interjurisdictional adoption issues, focusing on the: (1) number of foster children who are available and waiting for an adoptive home to be identified; (2) actions taken by state and county child welfare agencies and nonprofit organizations to improve the adoption process when prospective adoptive families and foster children live in different… more
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA Health Care: Food Service Operations and Costs at Inpatient Facilities

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 Veterans Affairs' (VA) food service operations, focusing on: (1) the type and volume of food services VA provides; (2) how VA provides food services; (3) the cost VA incurs; and (4) the revenues VA generates from sales of excess food services."
Date: November 19, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Lesbian and Gay Democrats of Texas]

Description: Treasurer's report for the Board of Directors meeting on November 21, 1999, regarding the collection of membership dues.
Date: November 21, 1999
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Treasurer's Report Board of Directors Meeting

Description: Treasurer's report for the Board of Directors meeting on November 21, 1999. Included is a list of Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas members with contact information. There is also a list consisting of Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas 1998-2000 officers' contact information.
Date: November 21, 1999
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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