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Social Security: Capital Markets and Educational Issues Associated With Individual Accounts (open access)

Social Security: Capital Markets and Educational Issues Associated With Individual Accounts

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the issues associated with individual social security accounts, focusing on how such accounts could affect: (1) private capital and annuities markets as well as national savings; (2) potential returns and risks to individuals; and (3) the disclosure and educational efforts needed to inform the public about such a program."
Date: June 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rural Water Projects: Identifying the Benefits of the Proposed Lewis and Clark Project (open access)

Rural Water Projects: Identifying the Benefits of the Proposed Lewis and Clark Project

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the benefits of constructing the Lewis and Clark Rural Water Project, focusing on: (1) what benefits could derive from the Lewis and Clark project; (2) who could receive these benefits; and (3) how these benefits are valued."
Date: May 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Management: Better Controls Essential to Improve the Reliability of DOD's Depot Inventory Records (open access)

Financial Management: Better Controls Essential to Improve the Reliability of DOD's Depot Inventory Records

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the reliability of the Department of Defense's (DOD) depot inventory records, focusing on: (1) DOD's procedures for verifying the accuracy of its perpetual inventory records; and (2) the internal controls over the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) physical inventory process to determine whether they provide a reliable, accurate measure of the perpetual inventory records."
Date: June 28, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.B0137.0628]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 28, 1993
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0146.0168]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "I bet there wasn't a dry eye in here when they told us," said Lilly Belle Cowan, 80, who has been a volunteer for 17 years."
Date: May 28, 1993
Creator: Faytinger, David
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0580]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brandon Clonch of Ada, first-place Winner in the Kindergarten-through-second grade decision of the "Don't Lay Trash on Oklahoma" poster contest, shows his entry while his mother, Vicki, Holds a T-shirt with her son's design on the front."
Date: April 28, 1993
Creator: McDaniel, David
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0138.0354]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: May 28, 1992
Creator: Beckel, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0139.0559]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Clarice Reynolds, left, and Dorothy Coley at the Oklahoma County Historical Society dinner."
Date: October 28, 1994
Creator: Sisney, Steve
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0148.0096]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: February 28, 1994
Creator: Klock, Roger
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0135.0562]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Diane Joy-Sisemore, B. C. Clark Jr., Tiana Douglas and Jim Tolbert, from left, take time to pose for the photographer at the eighth annual Dean A. McGee Award Dinner sponsored by Downtown Now."
Date: April 28, 1993
Creator: Gooch, Steve
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History