An Introduction to Farm Commodity Programs (open access)

An Introduction to Farm Commodity Programs

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is required to provide assistance to 20 specified agricultural commodities, to achieve three primary objectives: to support prices, supplement incomes, and manage supplies. Supporters contend that financial help to the farm sector also ensures consumers an abundant supply of reasonably priced food. But critics believe that basic U.S. farm policies, conceived in the 1930s, no longer meet the needs of modern agriculture or society as a whole. This report discusses the various programs available for different commodities.
Date: July 20, 1994
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Support Programs and World Trade Commitments (open access)

Farm Support Programs and World Trade Commitments

Congress is now debating reauthorization of omnibus farm legislation, as most commodityprice support provisions expire in 2002. This report discusses this debate, specifically aspects relating to commitments that the U.S. has as a World Trade Organization (WTO) member. Because of the interrelationships between trade and domestic support policies, lawmakers are interested in what the Agreement on Agriculture stipulates with regard to domestic supports, and how not only the United States but also other countries are meeting their Agreement commitments.
Date: July 20, 2001
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United States and the Use of Force in the Post-Cold War World: Toward Self-Deterrence? (open access)

The United States and the Use of Force in the Post-Cold War World: Toward Self-Deterrence?

Early in the post-Cold War era, the willingness of the United States to use military force was tested by Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. U.S. actions and those of allied nations suggested that the international community had the will and ability to respond to serious aggressions and some other threats to international order. The United States appeared to be showing the way toward a post-Cold War international system whose demonstrated ability to respond to such threats was expected to deter at least some of them.
Date: July 20, 1994
Creator: Sloan, Stanley R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monetary Policy: Current Policy and Conditions (open access)

Monetary Policy: Current Policy and Conditions

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Date: July 20, 2001
Creator: Makinen, Gail
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy and Electricity Restructuring (open access)

Renewable Energy and Electricity Restructuring

Several electricity industry restructuring bills propose to eliminate the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), which has been key to the growth of renewable power facilities. Bills intended to ensure a continuing role for renewable energy sources have been introduced in the 106th Congress that include some combination of a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS),
Date: July 20, 1999
Creator: Sissine, Fred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Appropriations for FY2002: Defense Readiness and Other Programs (open access)

Supplemental Appropriations for FY2002: Defense Readiness and Other Programs

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Date: July 20, 2001
Creator: Daggett, Stephen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Japan-Taiwan Economic Relations: Implications for the U.S. (open access)

Japan-Taiwan Economic Relations: Implications for the U.S.

Taiwan and Japan might seem to be two similar island economies when viewed from this side of the Pacific, but they are strikingly dissimilar. Over the twentieth century, their relationship with one another has shifted from colonial to mutual growth and recognition to the current anomaly of an intense economic interchange accompanied by severed diplomatic ties. Between Taiwan and Japan, the private sector is taking the lead in developing a relationship that is both mutually beneficial and strained.
Date: July 20, 1992
Creator: Nanto, Dick K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) (open access)

The Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA)

Report discussing the Iran Libya Sanctions Act as well as the legislative developments that occurred regarding the act.
Date: July 20, 2001
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Korea After Kim Il Sung (open access)

North Korea After Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung died on July 8, 1994, the only leader North Korea had since its founding in 1948. His death raises several questions about future stability and the strong U.S. interests on the Korean Peninsula.
Date: July 20, 1994
Creator: Shinn, Rinn-Sup & Sutter, Robert G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security and the Federal Budget: What Does Social Security's Being "Off Budget" Mean? (open access)

Social Security and the Federal Budget: What Does Social Security's Being "Off Budget" Mean?

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Date: July 20, 2000
Creator: Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Central Asia's New States: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (open access)

Central Asia's New States: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States recognized the independence of all the former Central Asian republics and established diplomatic relations with each by mid-March 1992. This report provides an overview of U.S. policy concerns after the Soviet collapse. The report presents the U.S. policy attention and aid to support conflict amelioration, humanitarian needs, economic development, transport (including energy pipelines) and communications, border controls, democracy, and the creation of civil societies in the South Caucasian and Central Asian states. The United States has some economic and business interests in Central Asia, particularly in oil and natural gas development in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: Nichol, Jim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program (open access)

Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program

Most current U.S. nuclear warheads were built in the 1980s, and are being retained longer than was planned. Yet warheads deteriorate and must be maintained. The current approach monitors them for signs of aging. When problems are found, a Life Extension Program (LEP) rebuilds and replaces components. Modifying some critical components would require a nuclear test, but a nuclear test moratorium is in effect. Therefore, LEP rebuilds these components as closely as possible to original specifications. Using this approach, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy have certified stockpile safety and reliability for the past nine years without nuclear testing.
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2006 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2006

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Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: Davey, Michael E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Funding and Reauthorization (open access)

Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Funding and Reauthorization

Community Services Block Grants (CSBG), administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provide federal funds to states, territories and Indian tribes for distribution to local agencies to reduce poverty. Several related national activities — Community Economic Development, Rural Community Facilities, National Youth Sports, Community Food and Nutrition, Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals (JOLI) and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) — also provide grants to local communities for a variety of anti-poverty initiatives.
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: Spar, Karen & Laney, Garrine P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detainees at Guantànamo Bay (open access)

Detainees at Guantànamo Bay

After the U.S. Supreme Court held that U.S. courts have jurisdiction to hear legal challenges on behalf of more than 500 persons detained at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in connection with the war against terrorism, the Pentagon established administrative hearings, called “Combatant Status Review Tribunals” (CSRTs), to allow the detainees to contest their status as enemy combatants. This report provides an overview of the CSRT procedures and summarizes court cases related to the detentions.
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Law of Church and State: Selected Opinions of Justice O'Connor (open access)

The Law of Church and State: Selected Opinions of Justice O'Connor

This report offers an examination of Justice O’Connor’s opinions interpreting the Establishment Clause reveals that she employed different tests depending on the type of government activity at issue. The decisions show that O’Connor believed that these cases should all be examined carefully with particular attention given to the facts of each, and that the Court should refrain from tying itself to a single test for evaluating Establishment Clause cases.
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: Welborn, Angie A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China-U.S. Relations (open access)

China-U.S. Relations

This report discusses the background information and most recent development in U.S.-China relations since mid-1996. The relations also have been marred by continuing allegations of Chinese espionage, ongoing controversy over human rights, charges that China continues to violate its non-proliferation commitments, controversy over the accidental NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, and renewed tensions over Taiwan. The report describes current issues in U.S.-China relations such as; Human Rights Issues, Issues in U.S.-China Security Relations, Economic Issues, and Sovereignty Issues: Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong.
Date: July 20, 1976
Creator: Sutter, Robert G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses (open access)

Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses

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Date: July 20, 2004
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. Monday, July 20, 1942 : week of July 10 to July 17

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, North Africa, Vichy fleet, Atlantic, Madagascar, Jugoslavia, Burma, China. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Includes inset maps: Battle of Midway, Battleground in North Africa, Russian Front. Photographs: U.S. carrier is hit; Somewhere in Australia; Night bloom; Desert daybreak; Taken from Rommel; All-Chinese gun crew; Seagoing tractor on test; Ride through hell. Back: Text and illustrations promote the WEFT (Wing, Engine, Fuselage, Tail) method of aircraft recognition.
Date: July 20, 1942
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Current Legislation (open access)

U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Current Legislation

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Date: July 20, 2006
Creator: Squassoni, Sharon & Parillo, Jill Marie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran's Nuclear Program: Recent Developments (open access)

Iran's Nuclear Program: Recent Developments

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections since 2003 have revealed almost two decades' worth of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran, including uranium enrichment and plutonium separation efforts. The Security Council called upon Iran to take steps requested of it by the IAEA Board in February -- reinstate its suspension of enrichment and reprocessing, reconsider construction of its heavy water reactor, ratify and implement the Additional Protocol, and implement transparency measures. Iran has continued enrichment activities and failed to meet the Security Council's request.
Date: July 20, 2006
Creator: Squassoni, Sharon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran's Nuclear Program: Recent Developments (open access)

Iran's Nuclear Program: Recent Developments

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections since 2003 have revealed almost two decades' worth of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran, including uranium enrichment and plutonium separation efforts. The Security Council called upon Iran to take steps requested of it by the IAEA Board in February -- reinstate its suspension of enrichment and reprocessing, reconsider construction of its heavy water reactor, ratify and implement the Additional Protocol, and implement transparency measures. Iran has continued enrichment activities and failed to meet the Security Council's request.
Date: July 20, 2006
Creator: Squassoni, Sharon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Transition Probabilities for Spectral Lines of Seventy Elements: Derived from the NBS Tables of Spectral-line Intensities (open access)

Experimental Transition Probabilities for Spectral Lines of Seventy Elements: Derived from the NBS Tables of Spectral-line Intensities

From introduction: "The goal of the work was to provide lists of the principal lines of the elements generally observed under ordinary conditions in arc spectra, together with their relative intensities on a true scale of relative energy."
Date: July 20, 1962
Creator: Corliss, Charles H. & Bozman, William R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Letter from Mayor Bart Peterson to Chairman Principi dtd 18 July 2005 (open access)

Letter from Mayor Bart Peterson to Chairman Principi dtd 18 July 2005

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Indianapolis, Indiana Mayor Bart Peterson to Chairman Principi regarding DFAS Indianapolis Indian.
Date: July 20, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library