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Between 1988 and 1995, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) estimates that Americans spent 57.3 billion on drugs for nonmedical purposes. [Pg.4]

Currently, drug trafficking is a 400-billion-per-year industry in our country and represents 8% of the world s trade. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Americans currently spend 46— 79 billion annually on just two (of many possible) psychoactive drugs cocaine and heroin (Kari Associates, 2004). The Bureau of Justice Statistics (1999) indicates that between 60% and 83 % of the nation s correctional population have used drugs at some point in their lives, roughly twice as many as others in the U.S. population. [Pg.333]

White House Office of National Drug Control Policy... [Pg.139]

January The Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and WB broadcast networks admit they had allowed the White House Office of Drug Control Policy to review about 100 scripts for popular prime-time shows. The controversial program made payments to networks that agreed to include antidrug themes in their programs. [Pg.95]

White House Office of National Dmg Control Policy. Dmg Facts Club Dmgs, 2001. [Pg.223]

President William J. Clinton, Interview of the President by the New York Times, Washington DC White House Office of the Press Secretary (23 January 1999) Richard Preston, The Cobra Event, Random House (1998). [Pg.180]

JOSEPH K. ALEXANDER, senior program officer, served previously as director of the Space Studies Board (1999-2005), deputy assistant administrator for science in the Environmental Protection Agency s Office of Research and Development (1994-1998), associate director of space sciences at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1993-1994), and assistant associate administrator for space sciences and applications in the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications (1987-1993). Other positions have included deputy NASA chief scientist and senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Alexander s own research work has been in radio astronomy and space physics. He received B.S. and M.A. degrees in physics from the College of William and Mary. [Pg.117]

In his cover letter to President Clinton, John Gibbons, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology and PCAST s co-chairman, said the country needed to improve its R D effort, especially in relation to the challenge of responding responsibly and cost-effectively to the risk of global climate change from society s greenhouse gas emissions, in particular, carbon dioxide from combustion of fossil fuels. ... [Pg.255]

While awaiting approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget to adopt a final version of the regulations, the FDA operated according to the draft regulations (227). [Pg.231]

The Vatican s Index of Prohibited Books was a public document that proudly proclaimed the Church s struggle against values it considered subversive. In contrast, the clandestine nature of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy s tampering with TV scripts is evidence that those responsible for it knew full well that they were subverting America s values, and perhaps its laws as well. [Pg.136]

In 1997 the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), General Barry McCaffrey, faced a big public relations problem. Even though McCaffrey, several former presidents, and many others lobbied against medical marijuana initiatives in California and Arizona, the citizens of those states voted to legalize medical marijuana. McCaffrey stuck to his conviction that marijuana was not medicine and vowed that the federal government would prosecute patients and doctors who broke federal marijuana laws. [Pg.78]

White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500... [Pg.1]

On pages xi and I, the correct addresses for Paul Anastas and Lauren Heine should be the following Dr. Paul Anastas, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Old Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20502 and Lauren Heine, Zero Waste Alliance, International Sustainable Development Foundation, 121 SW Salmon Street, Suite 210, Portland, OR 97204. Footnote 4 on page 1 also has a typo It should be University of Nottingham. [Pg.361]

The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Executive Order - National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 22 May 2010, established the Commission with a mandate to analyse the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and to recommend options for future. [Pg.80]

Once completed with this process, the final nile will need to be reviewed by the Chief Counsel of the FMCSA, the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, and the White House Office of Management and Budget. After these reviews, any necessary corrections would be made and the final rule released. The final rule will not go into effect immediately when it is released. It will allow for an implementation period (a period from the time the rule is released until it goes into effect that allows the industry and the agency to prepare). [Pg.606]

The White House, Executive Order 12735 , (The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 16 November 1990), pp.1-4 and Memorandum of Disapproval (The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 16 November 1990), pp.1-3. [Pg.192]

White House Office of Management and Budget (WHOMB) states that cost overruns on the ISS project will be recovered by redirecting money away from the human space flight program, of which the shuttle project is the largest component. [Pg.135]


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