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Prescription Drugs: An Overview of Approaches to Negotiate Drug Prices Used by Other Countries and U.S. Private Payers and Federal Programs

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Rising prescription drug spending has led the United States and other countries to seek ways to negotiate lower prices with drug manufacturers. Currently, the Medicare Part D benefit, which offers outpatient prescription drug benefits to beneficiaries including elderly and certain disabled people, comprises competing prescription drug plans overseen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Medicar… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Budget Outlook: Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony, given by David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States before the Senate Committee on the Budget, addresses the nation's long-term fiscal outlook and the challenge it presents. However, the outlook is not good. Continuing down this current fiscal path would gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, out economy, our standard of living, and ultimately even our domestic tranquility and… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

Description: This report details the transition of Afghanistan to a democracy, yet still debates the problem of insurgency. Moreover, the report debates whether stabilization is possible at all due to rising issues of insurgency. The report also offers a summary of how the U.S. intended to deal with the problem, and where the problem was located.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Brief Summaries of Federal Animal Protection Statutes

Description: This report provides brief summaries of federal animal protection statutes.It includes statutes concerning animals that are not entirely,or not at all, animal protection statutes.It also includes statutes that allow the disabled to use service animals and statutes aimed at acts of animal right advocates.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Cohen, Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dynamic Dislocation Mechanisms For the Anomalous Slip in a Single-Crystal BCC Metal Oriented for "Single Slip"

Description: Dislocation substructures of high-purity Mo single crystals deformed under uniaxial compression at room temperature to an axial strain of 0.6% were investigated in order to elucidate the underlying mechanisms for the {l_brace}0{bar 1}1{r_brace} anomalous slip in bcc metals [1], which is also known as the violation of Schmid law [2]. The test sample was oriented with the stress axis parallel to a nominal ''single-slip'' orientation of [{bar 2} 9 20], in which ({bar 1}01) [111] is the primary sli… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Hsiung, L & La Cruz, C
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Authorized Limit Evaluation of Spent Granular Activated Carbon Used for Vapor-Phase Remediation at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, California

Description: This report provides a technical basis for establishing radiological release limits for granular activated carbon (GAC) containing very low quantities of tritium and radon daughter products generated during environmental remediation activities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This evaluation was conducted according to the Authorized Limit procedures specified in United States Department of Energy (DOE) Order 5400.5, Radiation Protection of the Public and the Environment (DOE, 1… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Devany, R & Utterback, T
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ANALYSIS OF SOLVENT RECOVERED FROM WRIGHT INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED TESTING

Description: Washington Savannah River Company (WSRC) began designing and building a Modular Caustic Side Solvent Extraction (CSSX) Unit (MCU) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to process liquid waste for an interim period. The MCU Project Team conducted testing of the contactors, coalescers, and decanters at Wright Industries, Incorporated (WII) in Nashville, Tennessee. That testing used MCU solvent and simulated SRS dissolved salt. Because of the value of the solvent, the MCU Project wishes to recover it f… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Poirier, M; Thomas Peters, T; Fernando Fondeur, F & Samuel Fink, S
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOE Ocean Carbon Sequestration Research Workshop 2005 - May 26th thru 27th

Description: The purpose of this workshop was to bring together the principal investigators of all the projects that were being funded under the DOE ocean carbon sequestration research program. The primary goal of the workshop was to interchange research results, to discuss ongoing research, and to identify future research priorities. In addition, we hoped to encourage the development of synergies and collaborations between the projects and to write an EOS article summarizing the results of the meeting. The… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Sarmiento, Jorge L.; Chavez, Francisco; Maltrud, Matthew; Adams, Eric; Arrigo, Kevin; Barry, James et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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UNT Multicultural Center Programs and Events for 2006-2007 Planning Chart

Description: A document listing the events hosted by the UNT Multicultural Center through the 2006-2007 school year. It separates the events by month and includes a short description, date and time, location, and the planner's first name. There are spaces that aren't filled out yet reserved for events that are being planned.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs

Description: This report discusses the recent development in different programs administered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with the goal to promote agricultural exports and to provide food aid. These programs include direct export subsidies, export market development, export credit guarantees, and foreign food aid.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Hanrahan, Charles E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Affirmative Action in Employment: A Legal Overview

Description: This report covers the legal history of affirmative action legislation in regard to employment. Moreover, the report tracks this type of legislation to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Specifically, much of this legislation stems from desegregation of public schools and even more specifically in regards to employment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Feder, Jody
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gangs in Central America

Description: This report provides information about the Gangs in Central America. In the past year, there has been an increasing effect on the effects of crime and gang violence in Central America.
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Ribando, Clare M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary Document: Restoration Plan for Major Airports after a Bioterrorist Attack

Description: This document provides general guidelines for developing a Restoration Plan for a major airport following release of a biological warfare agent. San Francisco International Airport was selected as the example airport during development of the Plan to illustrate specific details. The spore forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis was selected as the biological agent of primary concern because it is the most difficult of known bioterrorism agents to inactivate and is considered to be one of the agent… more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Raber, E
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Budget for Fiscal Year 2007

Description: Congress used three continuing resolutions on appropriations to fund all but two appropriation acts in the first half of the fiscal year 2007. The third one runs through February 15, 2007. The new chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees indicated that they will present a full-year, modified resolution to Congress funding the remaining appropriations before the third continuing resolution expires. This report contains information on the background and analysis for the federal … more
Date: January 11, 2007
Creator: Winters, Philip D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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