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SSI Children: Multiple Factors Affect Families' Costs for Disability-Related Services (open access)

SSI Children: Multiple Factors Affect Families' Costs for Disability-Related Services

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the factors affecting families' costs for disability-related services, focusing on: (1) the disability-related expenses incurred by families of children on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) that are not covered by federal, state, and local programs serving children with disabilities and the factors that influence the level of such costs; and (2) factors affecting families' receipt of disability-related services from programs."
Date: June 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Subvention Demonstration: DOD Start-Up Overcame Obstacles, Yields Lessons, and Raises Issues (open access)

Medicare Subvention Demonstration: DOD Start-Up Overcame Obstacles, Yields Lessons, and Raises Issues

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) implementation of its Medicare Subvention Demonstration program, focusing on: (1) progress in establishing the ground rules for program operation, receiving Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) approval, attracting enrollment, and starting to deliver health services; (2) the useful practices and operational difficulties that emerged during program start-up; and (3) issues for the future."
Date: September 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student Loans: Default Rates Need To Be Computed More Appropriately (open access)

Student Loans: Default Rates Need To Be Computed More Appropriately

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Education's method of calculating a school's student loan default rate, focusing on: (1) whether there has been an increase in the number of borrowers who entered repayment but subsequently received deferments or forbearances; (2) what effect would excluding borrowers whose loans were in deferment or forbearance have on the most recent default rate calculation; and (3) whether additional schools would have exceeded the 25-percent default rate threshold under the alternative method of calculating the default rate."
Date: July 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund's Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements (open access)

Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund's Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO presented the results of its audit of the District of Columbia's Highway Trust Fund, focusing on: (1) GAO's opinion on the effectiveness of the District's internal control related to the Fund as of September 30, 1998; and (2) the results of GAO's evaluation of the District's fiscal year 1998 compliance with laws and regulations as they relate to the Fund."
Date: September 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Finance: Actions Taken to Reform Financial Sectors in Asian Emerging Markets (open access)

International Finance: Actions Taken to Reform Financial Sectors in Asian Emerging Markets

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO analyzed the efforts to improve the financial sectors of the emerging market countries of Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand, focusing on: (1) the nature of weaknesses in the countries' financial sectors; (2) the extent to which the countries have achieved reforms in their financial systems; (3) the extent to which the countries have implemented international principles for banking supervision; and (4) U.S. government and multilateral institutions' efforts to effect changes in the financial sectors of these emerging markets."
Date: September 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Costs and Planned Use of Emergency Funds (open access)

Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Costs and Planned Use of Emergency Funds

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on year 2000 costs and funding at 41 federal agencies and organizations, focusing on the: (1) agency-reported year 2000 costs through fiscal year (FY) 1998 and the agency processes used to track these costs; (2) reported status of FY 1999 obligations for year 2000 activities; (3) estimated year 2000 costs for FY 1999 and the planned uses of emergency funds; and (4) estimated year 2000 costs for FY 2000."
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Security Income: Progress Made in Implementing Welfare Reform Changes; More Action Needed (open access)

Supplemental Security Income: Progress Made in Implementing Welfare Reform Changes; More Action Needed

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, focusing on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) progress in: (1) redetermining the eligibility of children already receiving benefits against the law's new eligibility criteria; (2) implementing the law's requirements for ongoing continuing disability reviews (CDR) and the related treatment provision; and (3) revising the interim final regulations to implement the law's eligibility criteria and the medical listings for childhood impairments, which are used to determine whether a child is disabled."
Date: June 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Policing: Observations on the COPS Program Midway Through Program Implementation (open access)

Community Policing: Observations on the COPS Program Midway Through Program Implementation

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the implementation of the Community Policing Act, focusing on statutory requirements for implementing the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export Controls: Implementation of the 1998 Legislative Mandate for High Performance Computers (open access)

Export Controls: Implementation of the 1998 Legislative Mandate for High Performance Computers

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the export of high performance computers to countries of concern that might use the computers for military or nuclear proliferation purposes, focusing on whether: (1) exporters' notifications to the Department of Commerce of proposed sales of high performance computers to countries of concern have resulted in any license applications and what action was taken on these licenses; and (2) Commerce is verifying the use of high performance computers after their export to these countries."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fresh Produce: Potential Consequences of Country-of-Origin Labeling (open access)

Fresh Produce: Potential Consequences of Country-of-Origin Labeling

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the labelling requirements for fresh produce, focusing on: (1) the potential costs associated with the compliance and enforcement of a mandatory country-of-origin labelling requirement at the retail level for fresh produce; (2) the potential trade issues associated with such a requirement; (3) the potential impact of such a requirement on the ability of the federal government and the public to respond to outbreaks of illness caused by contaminated fresh produce; and (4) consumers' views of country-of-origin labelling."
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Update on the Readiness of the Department of Veterans Affairs (open access)

Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Update on the Readiness of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) efforts to address the year 2000 computer problem, focusing on the: (1) year 2000 readiness of automated systems that support the delivery of veterans' benefits and health care services, the compliance status of biomedical equipment used in patient care, and the year 2000 readiness of the pharmaceutical and medical-surgical manufacturers on which VA relies; and (2) Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) year 2000 efforts to address biomedical equipment and pharmaceutical products."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold (open access)

Domestic Aviation: Effects of Changes in How Airline Tickets Are Sold

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) how changes in the way airlines sell tickets affected travel agencies and consumers; (2) airlines' policies and practices for the sale and use of airline tickets sold by travel agencies compared with the sale and use of tickets sold directly by airlines; (3) what airlines' policies and practices are for making their airfares, particularly discount fares, accessible to travel agencies and consumers; and (4) what airlines' policies and practices are regarding the use of data on travel agency sales."
Date: July 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Results: Strengthening Regulatory Agencies' Performance Management Practices (open access)

Managing for Results: Strengthening Regulatory Agencies' Performance Management Practices

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on performance management and measurement practices that could position regulatory agencies to more effectively implement the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993."
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0140.0294]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bob Colon, Daily Oklahoman sports editor."
Date: May 28, 1999
Creator: Argo, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Defense Acquisitions: Testing of F-15 and F-16 Radomes (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: Testing of F-15 and F-16 Radomes

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the potential for shortfalls in the performance of two radomes, one for the F-15 Eagle and one for the F-16 Falcon, focusing on whether replacement radomes, bought for spares and supplied by vendors other than the original manufacturer, met the Air Force's specifications for the original radomes."
Date: January 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Evaluation Procedure Report For Proposed Kaniksu Unit Of The Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge (open access)

Habitat Evaluation Procedure Report For Proposed Kaniksu Unit Of The Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge

Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is proposing to acquire a 706-acre property located in Stevens County, Washington. The new acquisition would be called the Kaniksu Unit. A habitat evaluation was conducted on the property using the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) methodology (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1980). Evaluation species were black-capped chickadee, mallard, ruffed grouse and white-tailed deer. Life requisites evaluated were food and reproduction for black-capped chickadee, food, cover, and reproduction for mallard, available winter browse for white-tailed deer and fall-to-spring cover for ruffed grouse.
Date: January 28, 1999
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
World War II Times, Volume 14, Number 4, October 28, 1999 (open access)

World War II Times, Volume 14, Number 4, October 28, 1999

Newspaper clipping of The World War II Times containing stories about veterans and WASP as well as about WWII. There are also photographs, comics, and advertisements included.
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: World War II Times
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 28, 1999 (open access)

Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 28, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 28, 1999
Creator: Retherford, Bill R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Mannford Star (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 28, 1999 (open access)

The Mannford Star (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 28, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 28, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 150, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1999 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 150, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 149, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1999 (open access)

Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 149, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 28, 1999
Creator: Whitehead, Marie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 28, 1999 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: April 28, 1999
Creator: Pfaffengut, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Speaker at Mexican Style Show]

Photograph of a speaker at Veronica Prida's Mexican Style Show, Threads of Light, held at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas. The speaker stands behind a black podium covered in cloth that is horizontally striped in black, purple, and red colors. The speaker wears a black lace dress, yellow brooch, and blue sash. Behind the speaker are two male and two female mannequins dressed in Mexican style clothing. On the left stands a small potted tree, the bottom of which is covered in patterned fabric. One wall is yellow, while the other wall is brown.
Date: February 28, 1999
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Models on Runway]

Photograph of people modeling clothing at Veronica Prida's Mexican Style Show, Threads of Light, held at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas. Seven models are in view walking down a runway covered in confetti. The leftmost woman wears a white dress and both pink and white flowers in her hair. To her right is a woman wearing a green ribbon in her hair and a dress with a bright floral pattern. The third woman is obscured by the fourth, who wears a blue blouse, loose white pants, and a blue ribbon in her hair. A woman with her hair in small braids follows her, wearing a red and white striped poncho. Behind this woman is a woman who wears a red, black, and green feathered headdress and translucent pink dress with flowers embroidered onto the bodice. Last in line is a man wearing white shorts and a pink fringed shirt with a pointed hat from which colored streamers hang. Several people can be seen viewing the models.
Date: February 28, 1999
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History