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Weinberg points out a feature of the Oak Ridge Research Reactor to Senator John Kennedy (left of Weinberg), Senator Albert Gore, Sr., and Jackie Kennedy. Looking on at far left is Sam Hurt. Emphasis on reduction of U.S. budget deficits may threaten the survival of many scientific programs and even some Department of Energy national laboratories. What is your view on this situation? Today's situation is analogous to the situation 50 years ago. The issue 50 years ago was what would be the future of the entity then known as Clinton Laboratories. What the Oak Ridge laboratory is for and where the money will come from have ...
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modern Alexandria has been shaped by its proximity to the nation's capital. It is largely populated by professionals working in the federal civil service, the U.S. military, or for one of the many private companies which contract to provide services to the federal government. The latter are known locally as beltway bandits , after the Capital Beltway , an interstate highway that circles Washington, D.C. One of Alexandria's largest employers is the U.S. Department of Defense . Others include the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Center for Naval Analyses . In 2005, the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
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As a motorcyclist who enjoy the empty roads, isolated, who looked with nostalgia at the Dakota, on the wall of my National Geographic map of planning my next trip. A childhood friend of my wife had just to be moved to Sioux Falls with his family. The brother of a friend who was best man at my wedding 25 years ago had transplanted California Sioux Falls for a long time. I you should check the look, but I also need to strengthen an angle of travel. Then, just as the perimeter around my Kansas (Rider, August 2004), I decided to go around the perimeter of North and South Dakota. Fargo was ... Read More
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Last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobby group in the country, urged the Obama administration to advance three free trade agreements that have been pending since the president took office earlier this year, Reuters reports. The organization said that trade agreements with Panama, South Korea and Colombia, which were all negotiated by former President George W. Bush’s administration, have been left on the table for the past year. John Murphy, the chamber’s vice president of international affairs, said that failing to move forward on these agreements would put approximately 500,000 jobs at ...
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The Obama administration is in talks with the Senate to craft a plan to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, a top State Department official said yesterday. "President Obama is strongly in favor of the United States becoming a party to the Law of the Sea Convention," said Margaret Hayes, director of the State Department's Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs. "We have been in touch with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There is discussion going on as to the exact timing of when they might have a hearing and when they might proceed to have the full Senate consider accession." Hayes said ...
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June 29 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a $29.4 billion budget for fiscal 2011 that closed a record deficit without raising taxes, and summoned lawmakers for a special session to cap growth in the U.S.’s highest property taxes. The spending plan overcame a gap of almost $11 billion and prevented a government shutdown after eight Democrats in the Assembly and four in the Senate joined Republicans to pass the measure for the year beginning July 1. Christie, 47, New Jersey’s first Republican elected governor since 1997, came to office in January on a pledge to rein in spending after property ...
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A day like today, when fear about the durability of the economic recovery rules, is an opportunity for US-based investors to establish exposure to the Great White North and the most vigorous developed economy on the planet. The quick-and-dirty exchange-traded fund (ETF) CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust (NYSE: FXC) shed nearly 2 percent as investors fled to the perceived safety of US Treasuries; the US dollar and the Japanese yen each rose against most currencies because they’re still considered relatively safe. The S&P/Toronto Stock Exchange Income Trust Index was off by 2.5 percent, still more evidence of rising ...
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ridge immediately recognized whose tribe it was by the tipi designs. ..... tools through trade, the people of the Plains entered a period of cultural ...
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Good morning. Over the past nine months the Department of Homeland Security has been proud to participate in the Council for Excellence in Government initiative to engage the American people about the role we all share when it comes to the security of our communities and our country. Certainly the tragic attacks of September 11th completely re-defined the homeland security mission. In an instant, we came face to face with an enemy bent on the destruction of our way of life, capable of carrying out catastrophic attacks to achieve sadistic goals, and unscrupulous in their regard for the innocent. Those attacks required a swift ...
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Several months ago, I had ventured up the ridge trail above
Tripler Hospital but turned back after a part-way journey because
I was hiking alone. The trail, approximately six rugged miles to
the top, is challenging and one I'd be ill-advised to traverse
all the way on my own. This morning (6/2/96), I had the good fortune to join members of the
Sierra Club for a superb trek up Tripler Ridge to the Koolau
Summit. Actually, I had found out about the hike at the 11th hour.
I didn't possess the most up-to-date SC newsletter so I
was unaware of the schedule for May and June hikes. A fellow I had
exchanged email with, ...
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Hello, I recently began building an enclosed porch/sunroom off of the side of my house. There was originally a screened in porch on a concrete slab there but I tore it down as it was in bad shape and not big enough for the jacuzzi I want to put inside. I extended the concrete slab and put in a proper footer 36" deep around the perimeter. The outside dimensions of the new room are 18'-8" Long by 9'-8" Deep. It has a "shed" roof style, 5/8 OSB, asphalt shingles. The new room top plate is standard 8' high, and top of the ridge where the roof connects to the house ...
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