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The June 9 Federal Register included three important documents related to nanotechnology: a policy statement applicable to all agencies; an EPA option...
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The Manufacturing Council will hold a meeting to hear updates from the Department of Commerce in addition to the Council's ex-officio members, the Secretaries of Energy, Labor, and the Treasury (or their designees) on the Government response to past Council recommendations regarding competitiveness, workforce development issues, energy policy, trade agreements and other issues affecting the U.S. manufacturing sector and to determine the Council's work plan for 2012.
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The June 9 Federal Register included three important documents related to nanotechnology: a policy statement applicable to all agencies; an EPA option...
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MORRISTOWN, N.J., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial Executives International (FEI), the association of choice for CFOs and other senior-level finance executives, will be hosting its first annual Washington Policy Conference on September 20-21 at the Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill. This new event is a must-attend, and will bring together key business and government thought leaders to shed light and offer critical dialogue on the impact of policy and regulation to senior-level financial executives and their companies. The event will feature keynote remarks from Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Hon. Douglas Shulman, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service and Hon. David M. Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Peter G. Peterson Found...
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THE Budget proposals for 2012 focussed on addressing some key issues playing on the minds of Government policy makers. These include:
* Accelerating investment,
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To: FOREIGN EDITORS
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The key forces shaping the new global communications environment for diplomacy include technology, geography, economics, patterns of public reliance on the media, and a set of cultural and linguistic concerns. Together they elevate the importance of media, government and public agendas about critical foreign policy issues. Factors that contribute in are discussed.
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As director of policy research for the nonprofit Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, Nathan A. Benefield has researched and written on issues ranging from taxes and government spending to health care policy and economic development. He frequently has testified before Pennsylvania House and Senate committees on issues such as the state budget, transportation funding, privatization and education.
We spoke by telephone Tuesday as Gov. Tom Corbett prepared to unveil a budget next week that some say should not include funding for Pennsylvania's Film Tax Credit.
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WASHINGTON - Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers reached a tentative agreement Monday on a sprawling $1 trillion- plus spending bill that chips away at military and environmental spending but denies conservatives many of the policy changes they wanted on social issues, government regulations and health care.
Environmentalists succeeded in stopping industry forces from blocking new clean air regulations and a new clean water regulation opposed by mountaintop removal mining interests. But anti-Castro lawmakers appeared likely to win concessions that would weaken administration efforts to ease restrictions on Cuban immigrants on travel to the island and sending cash back to family members there.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Cannabis Science Inc. (OTCBB: CBIS) an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, is very pleased with the latest announceme...