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We also saw a number of polity makers, starting with Allan Bromley. Allan was convinced of the importance of this field before we finished our talk, and he subsequently provided the leadership that led to Bob White overseeing the FCCSET initiative. We also went to see Eric Bloch. He responded positively, and NSF took the initiative and proposed an increase in their 1992 budget. We also met with Admiral James D. Watkins, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and with a host of congressmen and senators. [Pg.28]

According to one spokesperson, Senator Leahy s letter, in potency and appearance, was a twin to Senator Daschle s letter. It contained twenty-three thousand anthrax spores, a number of spores roughly equal to two lethal doses of inhalation anthrax (i.e., the infec-... [Pg.126]

Some local emergency response personnel and hazardous materials response teams have had to deal with numbers of copycat anthrax hoaxes since October 15 media attention to the Senator Daschle letter. What follows represents some basic information on anthrax to local hazardous materials response crews. [Pg.127]

Sentence Children s Watch, a nonprofit dedicated to researching children s issues, claims that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles has quadrupled since 1973—a fact that won t be overlooked by the government, since the group s annual report, The State of Our Children, is required reading for members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. [Pg.190]

Fifteen minutes later I was back in Number 96, finishing Violetta s breakfast while she scanned the contract. She wore another simple housemaid s dress, which I gathered Mlana had sewn for her overnight. It was plain, but few senators wives would boast of anything better made. I had come by the sea-level road because I was wearing my rapier swords and acrobatics do not mix. [Pg.23]

Ambassador to Mexico A number of years ago a former governor of Massachusetts (Weild) was denied the opportunity to become the ambassador to Mexico because US Senator... [Pg.3]

Charles Schumer, Democratic senator from New York, former representative from the Ninth District of New York and veteran on the House Judiciary Committee, where he chaired the subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice. Schumer is a strong advocate for gun control who helped pass the Brady Bill he also advocates bans on armor-piercing ammunition and a limit on the number of guns a person may purchase or own without a special arsenal license. ... [Pg.122]

The discovery process for the suit produced a number of revelations about Dr. Lancaster s interactions with Senator Gore and the senator s staff (including Dr. Socci) and about the senator and his staff s intentions. According to Dr. Lancaster s deposition, Senator Gore called him after the Easterbrook article appeared. During the phone call, the senator asked Dr. Lancaster about Dr. Revelle s mental capacity in the months before his death and whether the article accurately reflected his views. [Pg.298]

Machlup, F. 1958. Am Economic Review of the Patent System Study of the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights of the Committee of the Judiciary, US Senate, 85 Congress, 2 Session, Study Number 15, Washington, DC US Government Printing Office. [Pg.188]

He was a member of the American Chemical Society, and of its Carbohydrate Division (Chairman, 1972-1973) and its Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division (Chairman, 1971-1972). He was also a member of The Chemical Society (London), The Society of the Sigma Xi, the Combustion Institute, the Torrey Botanical Club, the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, and the Montana Academy of Sciences. He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis and the Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology. He chaired a number of symposia and conferences, including the July, 1983, Gordon Conference on Analytical Pyrolysis. Through election by the University of Montana faculty, he served on the Faculty Senate and on the Executive Committee of the Senate. In 1980, he was awarded the University of Montana s first Distinguished Research Award. [Pg.5]

As a result of these FDA observations, for-cause inspections were performed at a number of institutions conducting preclinical safety studies. The results of these inspections were reported to the U.S. Senate in July of 1975, by the then FDA commissioner, Dr. Alexander M. Schmidt. The findings for these for-cause inspections showed problems in the design, conduct, and reporting of preclinical safety studies. These problems were deemed so serious as to question the validity of some studies. The following examples are illustrative of the magnitude and seriousness of the problems uncovered in these for-cause inspections carried out by the FDA. [Pg.68]

By 2020, the EU wants to have 10% ethanol in its transportation fuel, and China is aiming for 15%. The United States Senate is proposing a biofuel production target of 36 billion gallons by 2020, of which 21 billion would come from corn-based ethanol. As a result, com prices doubled (from 1.65 to 3/bushel), and the number of ethanol plants also nearly doubled (from 81 to 129). [Pg.46]

For various reasons, groups such as the American Association of Pharmaceutical Chemists, the National Association of Medicinal Products, and the National Association of Druggists had opposed the bill in its initial form and lobbied actively for a number of modifications resulting in submission of a final form in 1913. Following considerable debate between House and Senate committees over proposed amendments, the Harrison Narcotics Act was passed on December 14, 1914, and went into effect March 1, 1915. Enforcement was assigned to the Bureau of Internal Revenue within the Treasury Department. [Pg.358]

On the federal level, a number of legislative initiatives are up for discussion in the US Congress, some being more inspired by REACH than others.40 In May 2008, two identical bills called the Kids-Safe Chemicals Act were sent to the Senate and to the... [Pg.259]

Prior to this time Lilftl had sent copies of his work - always the currently up-to-date version - to a number of politicians, including the Minister of Justice, a Club representative, several Deputies to the National Assembly, a Head of Provincial Government, etc., and in February 1992 to a number of Senate Chairmen of the Supreme Court. One of these gentlemen, whose name is here withheld out of gratitude, sent him the following remarkable reply ... [Pg.66]

Interestingly, the academic senate s response was much more reserved than that of the faculty in the CNR. The more the senate leadership thought about this—and we had long conversations with a number of the senior committees and the academic senate council—it deepened our concern about what the university was getting into. [Pg.71]

The attachment includes approximately 50 questions that were received from many corners of the campus. The list has numbered questions that came from the academic senate. The starred questions came from the executive committee of the CNR. The original questions were stated more in terms of the rhetorical won t this or that happen. They are now framed closer to data-gathering devices. [Pg.72]


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