Civil Rights Legislation: Responses to Grove City College v. Bell (open access)

Civil Rights Legislation: Responses to Grove City College v. Bell

This report discusses how broad should the coverage of Federal civil rights laws be? This was the central issue in the debate over legislation introduced in response to the February 1984 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grove City College v. Bell.
Date: May 27, 1988
Creator: Lyke, Robert F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Proposals in Trade Competitiveness Legislation (open access)

Education Proposals in Trade Competitiveness Legislation

Improvement on America's competitive position in international trade is one of the major issues confronting the 100th Congress. Most legislative proposals have included provisions for increasing the funding levels for Federal education programs, expanding current programs, or authorizing new programs. The primary goal is to improve the productivity of the Nation's workers by raising the skill level of the workforce. Discussions about education's role i n addressing the competitiveness issue have included the contribution of education to productivity growth, comparisons of the educational achievement of American school children with that of their peers in other nations , the educational needs of illiterate adults , and the role of technology in education.
Date: May 4, 1988
Creator: Irwin, Paul M. & Riddle, Wayne C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Programs: Reauthorization Issues (open access)

Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Programs: Reauthorization Issues

This report discusses the reauthorization of most Federal elementary and secondary education programs, which the 100th Congress is currently considering, as well as the creation of several new programs. Issues have included: (1) Federal versus ~tate/local priorities in the use of funds; (2) use of formula grants or competitive grants to allocate funds; (3) services for eligible nonpublic school children; (4) relationship between Federal programs and State-level school reform activities; and (5) information about programs and participants for the Congress.
Date: May 13, 1988
Creator: Riddle, Wayne C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
State-local highway consultation and cooperation : the perspective of state legislators (open access)

State-local highway consultation and cooperation : the perspective of state legislators

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document addresses state-local highway consultation and cooperation.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 3, No. 9, Pages 2424 to 2642, April 25 - May 6, 1988 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 3, No. 9, Pages 2424 to 2642, April 25 - May 6, 1988

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 3, No. 10, Pages 2643 to 2984, May 8 - May 20, 1988 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 3, No. 10, Pages 2643 to 2984, May 8 - May 20, 1988

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trends in Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World by Major Supplier, 1980-1987 (open access)

Trends in Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World by Major Supplier, 1980-1987

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Date: May 9, 1988
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trends in Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World by Major Supplier, 1980-1987 (open access)

Trends in Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World by Major Supplier, 1980-1987

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Date: May 9, 1988
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infertility: Medical and Social Choices (open access)

Infertility: Medical and Social Choices

This report illustrates a range of options for congressional action in nine principal areas of public policy related to infertility: collecting data on reproductive health; preventing infertility; information to inform and protect consumers; providing access to infertility services; reproductive health of veterans; transfer of human eggs, sperm, and embryos; recordkeeping; surrogate motherhood; and reproductive research.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Developments in Biotechnology: Field-Testing Engineered Organisms: Genetic and Ecological Issues (open access)

New Developments in Biotechnology: Field-Testing Engineered Organisms: Genetic and Ecological Issues

This report in the series illustrates a range of options for congressional action in three major areas of public policy related to this application of biotechnology: the criteria for review of planned introductions for potential risk, the administrative mechanisms for applying such review criteria, and the research base supporting planned introductions.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software (open access)

SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software

This report is the unclassified version of a classified document delivered to Congress at the end of August 1987. In attempting to reach agreement with the Department of Defense on what information could be included in an unclassified report, OTA found the wheels of bureaucracy to turn very slowly—when they turned at all. Only through the active intervention of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, beginning in late in November 1987, and extending to the end of March, 1988, was a partial resolution of the problem achieved.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties (open access)

Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties

This report addresses the issues of detection, identification, yield estimation, and evasion to arrive at answers to the two critical questions: 1) Down to what size explosion can underground testing be seismically monitored with high confidence? 2) How accurately can the yields of underground explosions be measured?
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology and the American Economic Transition: Choices for the Future (open access)

Technology and the American Economic Transition: Choices for the Future

The report highlights strategic choices available to Americans as we negotiate a period of major transformation. The choices we make will have profound consequences for the quality of work and the amenities available to Americans and for America’s role of leadership in the free world.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book preservation technologies (open access)

Book preservation technologies

This assessment analyzes the problem of acid deterioration of books and the program underway at the Library of Congress. The program at the Library involves the chemical treatment of books in a unique and effective process that, however, also presents some new engineering and safety concerns. Because of these concerns, the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations requested this independent review of the Library’s system and other available or potential processes.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criminal justice: new technologies and the constitution: special report (open access)

Criminal justice: new technologies and the constitution: special report

This report describes the new technologies being used in criminal justice and, as in all of the reports of this series, addresses that delicate balance to be maintained between the national interest and individual rights.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 40, Pages 2403-2571, May 24, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 40, Pages 2403-2571, May 24, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 24, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 41, Pages 2573-2639, May 27, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 41, Pages 2573-2639, May 27, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 27, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 42, Pages 2541-2714, May 31, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 42, Pages 2541-2714, May 31, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 31, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 35, Pages 2111-2195, May 6, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 35, Pages 2111-2195, May 6, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 6, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 36, Pages 2197-2232, May 10, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 36, Pages 2197-2232, May 10, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 10, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 37, Pages 2233-2275, May 13, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 37, Pages 2233-2275, May 13, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 13, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 38, Pages 2277-2344, May 17, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 38, Pages 2277-2344, May 17, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 17, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 39, Pages 2345-2402, May 20, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 39, Pages 2345-2402, May 20, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 20, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-896 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-896

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the city of Denison may withdraw from the Greater Texoma Utility Authority (RQ-1224)
Date: May 5, 1988
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History