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FEDERAL AGENCY, ACQUISITION AND BIDDING PROCESS

acquisitions process, lets determine which contracting vehicle will be more appropriate for this system. Sealed-bid prici...

The Great Depression: What Happened?

the early twentieth century, the United States was still very much an agrarian or agricultural economy. After the First World War...

BANKING PANICS AND CREATION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

and Granting Annuities (Moen and Tallman, 2003). Still, the bank, during its infancy, created storms of controversy, as those in p...

TAX PLANNING AND U.S. CITIZENS

that one would think would be enough to keep things moving. But neither the federal government nor income taxes are quite...

NEW DEAL LEGISLATION AND THE CURRENT RECESSION

Deal legislation which was created to help the economy move some 70 years ago. Well also examine the erosion of that legislation, ...

COMPARING CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE US AND ATLANTA DISTRICT FEDS

poor retail results (Sixth District). Tourism-related spending was also weak, though theme park attendance and cruise bookings wer...

The Economy and the Behavior of the Federal Reserve

it is a store of value because people are able to use money during another period of time (Mankiw, 2004). Money acts as a symbol o...

Safeguards and Penalties for Improper Use of Data and U.S. Law

to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...

Proposed Policy on Organized Crime

public desires media to provide "fair coverage of the facts" of a case, so that it becomes possible to formulate an informed opini...

Heath Insurance Coverage and Bariatric Surgery

the long run, providing bariatric surgery is the most efficient answer to this problem as it can result in tremendous net savings ...

Analysis of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the district court prevented the state or ...

Black & Decker Financial Position

2009, 2005), released a Power & Hand Tools study in early 2005 concluding that "U.S. demand for power and hand tools is forecast t...

Laws About On-The-Job Injuries

to all workers in the state (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009). The specific qualifying criteria and benefits may differ from one st...

Revenue For Education

regions, with the greatest decrease in the West. The amount of funding derived from property taxes in states has fluctuated dram...

Preventing Sexual Harassment in Tennessee

president of a state university keeping his job but also being sanctioned for his behavior in Allen v. McPhee (2007). Preventing S...

Anti-Kickback Act of 1986

describes kickbacks as not only completed transactions of anything of valuable such as money, commissions, gifts, or gratuities, b...

How About Separation of Business and State?

Business Cycle One quality that all of the worlds leading economies share is that all have experienced trying times in the ...

Affirmative Action and Nebraska’s Initiative 424

experience is flawed (Hansen, 2008a). Initiative 424, however, has both supporters and critics. Harvey Perlman (chancellor of th...

The Paranoia That Led to the American Civil War

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

Same-Sex Marriage

right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...

Monetary Policy And The Federal Reserve

the past two or three decades, there has been a great deal of money created from borrowing and spending. Consider the level of con...

FedEx and the Use of Technology

can Fedex do to even further improve on its already technology oriented facilities? FedEx would introduce various products to enh...

The Necessity for a Federal Shielding Law for Journalists

grand jury, his sources will dry up and the attempted exposure, the effort to enlighten the public, will be ended" (Gora 1399). Go...

The Functions of the Federal Reserve

equates to the setting of interest rates for federal and treasury securities (Federal Reserve, 2007). The impact is due to the w...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

Controlling Organized Crime

contingencies of the contemporary world. The FBI Organized Crime Program utilizes a methodology designed to provide the maximum ef...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

THE SUB-PRIME CRISIS AND FEDERAL RESERVE

"Private labels" began moving into the securitization business, and by 2003, government-sponsored enterprises ended up as the sour...