Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1981: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, Part 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 |
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Page 67 - Government created by the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (PL 94-168, 15 USC 205a-205k), hereinafter referred to as the Act. (b) Section 3 of the Act states "that the policy of the United States shall be to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the Untied States and to establish a United States Metric Board to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system".
Page 172 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 437 - It should be pointed out that the principle of applying equal pension formulas for all would still not result in equal pensions. Far from it. Those presently employed, because of their higher salaries, would still receive higher pensions than those presently retired. But at least there would be fairness in the application of a single computation formula for all of those eligible for RFE/RL pensions. Because RFE and RL from their inception have been financed by the US Government, the obligation and...
Page 27 - the purpose of § 5 has always been to insure that no voting-procedure changes would be made that would lead to a retrogression in the position of racial minorities with respect to their effective exercise of the electoral franchise.
Page 67 - To declare a national policy of coordinating the increasing use of the metric system in the United States, and to establish a United States Metric Board to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system.
Page 77 - To provide a national program in order to make the international metric system the predominant but not exclusive system of measurement in the United States and to provide, for converting to the general use of such system within ten years.
Page 148 - The above activities will be carried out in close cooperation with the continuing activities of the Social Science Research Council's Center for Coordination of Research on Social Indicators...
Page 164 - Care should be exercised during the initial steps of the acquisition process not to conform mission needs or program objectives to any known systems or products that might foreclose consideration of alternatives.
Page 194 - We will insert your prepared statement in the record at this point. (The statement referred to follows :) STATEMENT BY W.
Page 651 - Section 130.8 of the final rule states that "no loan shall be made under this program unless the financial assistance is. not otherwise available on reasonable terms from non-federal sources. Also an immediate participation will not be approved unless a guarantee participation is not available...