Results for “US National Academy of Sciences”

…ability and diverting public resources from impor- tant priorities such as health, education, and infrastructure. When business is won or lost based on how much a company is willing to pay in bribes rather than on the quality of its products and services, law-abiding companies ar...

Improving operating efficiency. With nearly one government civilian worker (federal, state and local) for every six households, efficiency gains seem possible. A 20-year trend line of declining federal civilian headcount was reversed in the late 1990s. Resuming that trend would...

…No Is Invitation: No GUID: DB00464D-21E7-4C3B-BB44-560D321E6108 Message: the football analogy , helps with the anonymous op ed. imagine if a team member thought they would work against tom brady strategy. fans would go crazy. and like a football team they call each other dumbfu...

Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club...

the ruling BJP has not a single Muslim MP among its cohort of 282; Muslims are reckoned to comprise at least 14% of the Indian population. But largely Mr Modi told the truth: the BJP’s manifesto and Mr Modi’s speeches emphasised economic and development matters. The victory he a...

… Beatles during their first trip to America. There were 300 screaming young girls, off on a fetishist’s holiday. Obviously, there wouldn’t be enough items to go around, but it was announced that the Beatles’ unwashed towels and bed linens were to be cut into two-inch squares an...

… talks with Chinese leaders and that the two had made an earlier secret trip in July, soon after the crackdown. As the Bush administration had publicly promised Congress that all such contacts would end, the staff delegates’ anger at and criticism of China’s repression was compou...

most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and especially Russia to help isolate Iran and North Korea. She and the president have convinced the Russians that proffering military hardware to Iran isn’t in their national-sec...

…hysicists (ESEG)* Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) American Petroleum Institute (API)* Member Board of Trustees, Colorado Energy Research Institute, March 1975 to March 1981 Honorary Consul, Republic of Panama, 1974-1986 Member, Uranium Subpanel of Supply and Deliv...

114 NOTES 1 “Trade in Goods with China.” US Census Bureau. July 2018. https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade /balance/c5700.html. 2 “Chinese Investment Monitor.” Rhodium Group. Accessed September 3, 2018. http://cim.rhg.com /interactive/china-investment-monitor. 3 Feigenbaum, E...

of direct payments for tuition and medical expenses are subject to GST but for this special exclusion. Also, although HEETs have been written about in planning publications, it is unclear how often they are actually implemented: donors who use their GST exemption for multi-genera...

… writers and artists. They paid me $1,000 a month. My first column, in 1964, was a report on an auction of two-inch HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024374

…HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS and student loans to credit scores and overdrafts in personal bank accounts. This ubiquitous surveillance of virtually every non-cash transaction came about because of advances in computer technology that made it economically feasible to mine such da...

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…al meetings in recent weeks with citizens from all parts of the country. He wanted to hear directly from them. The conclusion he had reached was that there were several different components to the protest movement. First, there were those who had legitimate demands, who wanted j...