Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Issues and Arguments (open access)

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Issues and Arguments

This report discusses the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty that would ban all nuclear explosions. The report presents a detailed, comprehensive discussion of the treaty's pros and cons from a U.S. perspective.
Date: March 12, 2008
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turkey: Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs)-Issues and Economic Implications (open access)

Turkey: Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs)-Issues and Economic Implications

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Date: March 12, 2003
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agroterrorism: Threats and Preparedness (open access)

Agroterrorism: Threats and Preparedness

The potential of terrorist attacks against agricultural targets (agroterrorism) is increasingly recognized as a national security threat, especially after the events of September 11, 2001. This report focuses primarily on biological weapons (rather than chemical weapons) because biological weapons generally are considered the more potent agroterrorism threat. This report also focuses more on the threat of agroterrorism against agricultural production, rather than on food processing and distribution, although the latter is discussed.
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Monke, Jim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security (open access)

Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security

This report discusses the current political and social climate of Iraq, specifically in regards to the influence of the U.S. military presence over recent years. This report addresses planned and possible future efforts under the Obama Administration, including the scheduled gradual troops withdrawal. Some U.S. officials believe that a U.S. military presence is needed beyond the scheduled August 31, 2010 date, by which point all U.S. troops will have been withdrawn. This report also discusses the continued tensions between various Iraqi sociocultural groups.
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Nondiscrimination in Employment: A Comparison of Title II Provisions in S. 358 and H.R. 493, 110th Congress (open access)

Genetic Nondiscrimination in Employment: A Comparison of Title II Provisions in S. 358 and H.R. 493, 110th Congress

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Date: March 12, 2008
Creator: Jones, Nancy Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trends in Terrorism: 2006 (open access)

Trends in Terrorism: 2006

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Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedural Analysis of Private Laws Enacted: 1986-2007 (open access)

Procedural Analysis of Private Laws Enacted: 1986-2007

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Date: March 12, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Electoral College: Reform Proposals in the 109th Congress (open access)

The Electoral College: Reform Proposals in the 109th Congress

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Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minimum Wage in the Territories and Possessions of the United States: Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (open access)
Aviation Finance: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization and Related Issues (open access)

Aviation Finance: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization and Related Issues

This report provides background information on how the existing trust fund based aviation finance system operates, discusses several basic issues concerning aviation taxation, and identifies FAA programmatic spending.
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Fischer, John W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Welfare Reform: TANF Trends and Data (open access)

Welfare Reform: TANF Trends and Data

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Date: March 12, 2003
Creator: Burke, Vee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Banking: Changing Expectations and Regulations (open access)

Internet Banking: Changing Expectations and Regulations

This report provides an overview of the changing expectations and regulations of internet banking.
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Eubanks, Walter W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Somalia: Current Conditions and Prospects for a Lasting Peace (open access)

Somalia: Current Conditions and Prospects for a Lasting Peace

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Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Courts Narrow McCarran-Ferguson Antitrust Exemption for ”Business of Insurance”; Viability of ”State Action” Doctrine as an Alternative (open access)

Courts Narrow McCarran-Ferguson Antitrust Exemption for ”Business of Insurance”; Viability of ”State Action” Doctrine as an Alternative

This report discusses the United States v. South-Eastern underwriter Ass'n that held that the federal antitrust laws were applicable to an insurance association's interstate activities in restrain of trade.
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Rubin, Janice E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Climate Change: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions — Status, Trends, and Projections (open access)

Global Climate Change: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions — Status, Trends, and Projections

This report sets out the baseline emissions that the U.S. has established and portrays trends in emission over the past decade.
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Parker, Larry & Blodgett, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Whistleblower Protection Act: An Overview (open access)

The Whistleblower Protection Act: An Overview

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Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Whitaker, L. Paige
System: The UNT Digital Library
SCHIP Original Allotments: Description and Analysis (open access)

SCHIP Original Allotments: Description and Analysis

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Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (P.L. 109-417): Provisions and Changes to Preexisting Law (open access)

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (P.L. 109-417): Provisions and Changes to Preexisting Law

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Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
ANWR Oil: Native Lands and State Waters (open access)

ANWR Oil: Native Lands and State Waters

This report describes Native Lands and State Waters related to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR) oil.
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Gelb, Bernard A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2007 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security (open access)

FY2007 Appropriations for State and Local Homeland Security

This report is an overview of the FY2007 Department of Homeland Security appropriations, the Administration's budget request, and the House- and Senate- passed versions of H.R. 5441 for seven homeland security programs designed to provide assistance to state and local first responders.
Date: March 12, 2007
Creator: Reese, Shawn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Business Taxation: The Current System, Its Effects, and Options for Reform (open access)

Federal Business Taxation: The Current System, Its Effects, and Options for Reform

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Date: March 12, 2008
Creator: Marples, Donald J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recess Appointments: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Recess Appointments: Frequently Asked Questions

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Date: March 12, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Curt Flood Act of 1998: Application of Federal Antitrust Laws to Major League Baseball Players (open access)

Curt Flood Act of 1998: Application of Federal Antitrust Laws to Major League Baseball Players

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Date: March 12, 2004
Creator: Rubin, Janice E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Controversies for the 108th Congress (open access)

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Controversies for the 108th Congress

This report is a brief of the controversies for the 108th Congress regarding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Date: March 12, 2003
Creator: Corn, M. Lynne; Gelb, Bernard A. & Baldwin, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library