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• Don't whistle while you work: at the Bush administration's whistleblower office, tips on murder, espionage, and terrorism are processed "in the order in which they are received." But any sign of the homosexual agenda—that is priority number

  - 2007-05-01

  IT LOOKED AS IF LEROY SMITH was going to get some recognition after all. A safety manager at a federal prison in California, he had challenged his bosses, risked his job, and endured threats of retaliation to expose hazardous conditions in a prison computer recycling program where inmates were smashing...

  Tags: agency, FBI, Government, MARKETING, retaliation, security, terrorism, U.S. Congress, UpShot, White House

• Inside the administrative state: a critical look at the practice of presidential control.

  - 2006-10-01

  From the inception of the administrative state, scholars have proposed various models of agency decision-making to render such decision-making accountable and effective, only to see those models falter when confronted by actual practice. Until now, the "presidential control" model has been largely impervious to this...

  Tags: agency, Bush, Council, MARKETING, president, regulation, Richard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, upshot, White House, Yes

• Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law

  - 2006-03-01

  ABSTRACT In recent years, the formal environmental lawmaking dimension of Congress has become effectively moribund. Earlier Congresses were, by contrast, celebrated for enacting sweeping, demanding environmental laws and for passing significant and increasingly detailed amendments in response to subsequent developments in executive branch agencies, federal courts, and the states. Now,...

  Tags: agency, Environmental, MARKETING, pollution, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, upshot

• SHIFTING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE SECTIONS 402 AND 404 PERMITTING PROGRAMS BY EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF FILL MATERIAL

  - 2004-01-01

  Abstract:The section 404 permitting program has endured a history of divergent interpretations from both the agencies that operate the program and the courts. In 2002, these agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA, redefined fill material to include many activities under the section 404 program that did not appear...

  Tags: agency, FINANCE, Government, permit, regulation, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, upshot

• PHILIPPINES MISSES OUT ON FAVOURABLE COMMENT FROM RATING AGENCIES.

  - 2002-09-11

  MANILA, Sept 11 Asia Pulse - Most of the country's neighbors obtained favorable assessment from the international credit rating firms in recent months, except for the Philippines which merited only a light tap on the back and a one-liner saying its economic outlook was stable. This stood out...

  Tags: agency, Asian Development Bank, Better Business Bureau, FINANCE, Government, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, upshot

• Chicago Tribune Marketing Column.

  - 2002-07-18

  By Jim Kirk, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 18--BREWING GIANTS TO SPLIT TICKET FOR BEARS RIGHTS: The big bucks brawl over beer-sponsorship rights for the Chicago Bears appears to be a draw--at least for this season. The Bears are poised...

  Tags: agency, brewer, Chicago, Coors, director, MARKETING, NFL, Tribune Co., UpShot

• EPA defies Mandate Relief Act.

  - 1997-04-01

  The quest for an effective air policy is affected by EPA's refusal to comply with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act UMRA. Under Title II of the UMRA, federal agencies must estimate the cost of a mandate and decide on the most cost-effective alternative regulation. However, EPA feels that the Clean...

  Tags: agency, Quality, regulation, standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, upshot

• Insurers can thrive on changes in P-C market. (property and casualty insurance industry) (Column)

  - 1995-01-23

  If the events of the last couple of years demonstrates nothing else, they tell us once again how difficult it is to predict the future in a fast-changing and uncertain world. At the end of 1992, President Clinton had just been elected, and the voters had...

  Tags: agency, FINANCE, Insurance, Strategy, U.S. Congress, upshot, upside, worker