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[News Script: Chili]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date: November 3, 1968
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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The FCC Fairness Doctrine

Description: This report discusses two questions: (1) What is the legal basis for the FCC's jurisdictional authority to promulgate the Fairness Doctrine, (2) What is the normal way in which dissatisfied parties may attempt to have a ruling eliminated or amended.
Date: November 3, 1967
Creator: Yadlosky, Elizabeth
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Estimate of earth media shear strength at the Nevada Test Site

Description: A method is presented of estimating the effective shear strength of the fractured rock that surrounds a nuclear detonation. To do this, we measure the cavity radii from previous detonations. We also use numerical computer codes to model the explosion phenomenology and develop the functional relationship between the normalized cavity displacement and the normalized shear strength of the rock. In this sense, the computer codes serve as replica models that are dimensionally analyzed to interpret t… more
Date: November 3, 1977
Creator: Terhune, R. W. & Glenn, H. D.
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Numerical methods for laser fusion

Description: The LASNEX computer code was developed to study the many interrelated physical processes important in the effort to achieve laser initiated fusion. It has been used to calculate the results of numerous laser plasma experiments and to design targets and determine desirable laser pulse characteristics for future experiments. Some processes, such as hydrodynamics, are well formulated in fundamental equations and can be solved with high accuracy by sophisticated numerical methods. Other processes, … more
Date: November 3, 1977
Creator: Zimmerman, G.B.
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Propagation of a heavy ion beam in gas-filled reactor

Description: A heavy ion beam traversing a gas-filled reactor is stripped of its electrons along its path. The propagation of the stripping beam with possible associated instabilities has been investigated.
Date: November 3, 1977
Creator: Yu, S. S.; Buchanan, H. L.; Chambers, F. W. & Lee, E. P.
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Atomic data needs for beam transport in gas

Description: Determination of the parameters Z/sub eff/, electrical conductivity, plasma density, and the plasma temperature is essential in the study of heavy ion beam transport in gas. The calculation of these parameters require input from atomic physics. This note is an attempt to make these needs known to atomic physicists.
Date: November 3, 1977
Creator: Yu, S. S.
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Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO has performed the agreed-upon procedures solely to assist the Department of Transportation (DOT) in ascertaining whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, is supported by the underlying records. As agreed with DOT, GAO evaluated fiscal year 2008 activity affecting distributions to the AATF."
Date: November 3, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Countering Terrorism in East Africa: The U.S. Response

Description: This report provides an overview of current U.S. counterterrorism assistance programs and influence operations in East Africa and explores some of the strategies underpinning them. It also provides a brief description of the evolving terrorist threat in the region and explores the various roles of the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Treasury, Justice, and the U.S. Agency for International Development in implementing counterterrorism programs in the region. The report does not … more
Date: November 3, 2010
Creator: Ploch, Lauren
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Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We have performed the procedures described in the enclosure to this letter, which we agreed to perform and with which the Department of Transportation concurred, solely to assist the office in ascertaining whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, is supported by the underlying records. As agreed with the office, we evalua… more
Date: November 3, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Administrative Issues Related to a Change in Majority in the House of Representatives

Description: This report briefly describes how a change in majority leadership in the House of Representatives -- such as the incoming new majority that will assume control of House operations at the beginning of the 112th Congress in January 2011 -- could affect House rules, committees, and administrative and legislative operations.
Date: November 3, 2010
Creator: Petersen, R. Eric; Manning, Jennifer E. & Brudnick, Ida A.
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Defense Contract Management Agency: Amid Ongoing Efforts to Rebuild Capacity, Several Factors Present Challenges in Meeting Its Missions

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) provides contract administration services for DOD buying activities. Its contract management offices (CMO) work with defense contractors to help ensure that goods and services are delivered on time, at projected cost, and that they meet performance requirements. DCMA also supports combatant commanders during contingency operations. As DCMA recovers from year… more
Date: November 3, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Transportation Safety: Information Concerning Why a 1980 Aircraft Report Was Not Provided Earlier to the National Transportation Safety Board

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the reasons why a Boeing report entitled Center Wing Fuel Tank Heating Study (also referred to as the Panama Study) dated March 14, 1980, was not provided to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to aid in its investigation of the 1996 Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight 800 crash until June 1999."
Date: November 3, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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GAO's Congressional Protocols (Superseded by GAO-04-310G)

Description: Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication has been superseded by GAO-04-310G, GAO's Congressional Protocols, July 2004. This report has been superseded by GAO-04-310G, GAO's Congressional Protocols July 2004. This document contains the protocols governing GAO's work for Congress. These protocols are intended to provide (1) clearly defined and transparent policies and practices relating to GAO's work and (2) a means of holding GAO accountable… more
Date: November 3, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Federal Unemployment Taxes

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We performed the procedures which we agreed to perform and with which the Department of Labor (DOL) concurred soley to assist the DOL in ascertaining whether the net federal unemployment tax (FUTA) revenue distributed to the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, is supported by the underlying records. The procedures we agreed to perform relate to (1) transactions tha… more
Date: November 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As requested, this correspondence discusses our findings on whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011, is supported by the underlying records. The Department of Transportation's Inspector General is responsible for the adequacy of these agreed-upon procedures to meet the inspector's objectives, and we make no re… more
Date: November 3, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Private Pensions: Information on Cash Balance Pension Plans

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The nation's private defined benefit (DB) pension system, a key contributor to the financial security of millions of Americans, is in long-term decline. Since 1980, the number of active participants in Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insured single employer DB plans has dropped from 27.3 percent of all national private wage and salary workers in 1980, to about 15 percent in 2002, and more re… more
Date: November 3, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Review of Certain Aspects of the District of Columbia's Fiscal Year 1999 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Mitchell & Titus, LLP issued its Independent Auditors' Reports on the general purpose financial statements included in the District of Columbia's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) the fiscal year 1999. GAO reviewed the auditors' report in order to answer several congressional questions about to the CAFR. The independent auditors used generally accepted auditing procedures to ensure that the expenditu… more
Date: November 3, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "We assisted the Department of Transportation (DOT) in ascertaining whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, is supported by the underlying records. As agreed with the DOT Office of Inspector General, we evaluated fiscal year 2006 activity affecting distributions to the AATF. In performing the agreed-upon proce… more
Date: November 3, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Veterans' Disability Benefits: Improved Transparency Needed to Facilitate Oversight of VBA's Compensation and Pension Staffing Levels

Description: A statement of record issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Chairman, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, asked GAO to submit a statement for the record highlighting findings from an examination of the Veterans Benefit Administration's (VBA) fiscal year 2005 budget justification. In that review, we assessed (1) VBA's determination and justification of claims processing staffing levels, and t… more
Date: November 3, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Highway Trust Fund

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As requested, this correspondence discusses our findings on whether the net excise tax revenue distributed to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011, is supported by the underlying records. The Department of Transportation's Inspector General is responsible for the adequacy of these agreed-upon procedures to meet your objectives, and we make no representation in that re… more
Date: November 3, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Comparison of States' Highway Construction Costs

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "We are reporting to Congress on whether Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) data can help transportation stakeholders understand how states' costs to build, reconstruct, and maintain federally financed highways, roads, and bridges (termed "constructing highways" for this report) compare. Durig our review, we became aware of significant issues regarding the quality of the data that FHWA collects and reports, a… more
Date: November 3, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Defense Acquisitions: Price Trends for Defense Logistics Agency's Weapon System Parts

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Some military commands are raising concerns about price increases for weapon system parts. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) provides these parts and related services to the military, Department of Defense agencies, and other government entities. GAO found that the majority of DLA's weapon system spare parts experienced a relatively low annual price change--less than 5 percent--from 1989 through 1998. However… more
Date: November 3, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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