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...When you're in your job you don't have the time to draw back and look at the broader perspective of what you're doing," said Col. John D. Alexander, branch head of the Marine Corps' Reserve Division...
Under federal law, the executive branch--of which the OMB is a part--is not permitted to impound appropriations without Congressional approval...
This ecumenically significant ritual arose for distinctly unecumenical reasons. In the late 1970s some conservative members of the Episcopal Church (the U.S. branch of Anglicanism) broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived...
...practical manufacturing techniques and commercial products. Christopher Davis, a senior lecturer in Soviet studies at the University of Birmingham in England, blames the fragmentation of the research-and-development process. Says he: "In the Soviet Union, you might have the Academy of Sciences doing the basic research and a branch ministry doing the applied research, but the factory has to develop the prototype and go into mass production. No one is responsible for seeing that something goes through from the beginning...
...This does happen from time to time," said Jesse Snyder, a spokesman for the Boston branch of the FDIC, adding that banks rely on federal insurance to compensate for such losses. "There should be no impact on customers, depositors or shareholders...