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Dec 01, 2012	Utah Hunters Criticize Market Approach to Licenses and Conservation QUOTE: It especially bothers him — and other hunters — that those with means can buy public licenses through private outlets, paying thousands of dollars to move to the head of the line. More than any state in the West, Utah has expanded hunting opportunities for the well-to-do and has begun to diminish them for those seeking permits directly from the state.	New York Times
Sep 04, 2009	W.T.O. Says Aid to Airbus for A380 Was Illegal QUOTE: A preliminary report by the World Trade Organization has found that Airbus received illegal subsidies for the $13 billion A380 superjumbo jet and several other airplanes, hurting Boeing in the battle for sales...	New York Times
Aug 25, 2009	Hawaii to Remove Inmates Over Abuse Charges QUOTE: Hawaii prison officials said Tuesday that all of the state’s 168 female inmates at a privately run Kentucky prison will be removed by the end of September because of charges of sexual abuse by guards.	New York Times
Aug 14, 2009	Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus: Funds Would Come With Tighter Rules QUOTE: The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high-speed Internet access to every American home and offered stimulus money to help companies pay for it, but the biggest network operators are staying away from the program.	Washington Post
Jul 23, 2009	Programs' Religious Ties Raise Concerns QUOTE: The U.S. Agency for International Development funded programs that rebuilt Iraqi mosques and used biblical lessons to promote sexual abstinence in Africa, despite a prohibition on the use of taxpayer funds to support "inherently religious activities,"...	Washington Post
Jul 16, 2009	European Subsidies Stray From the Farm QUOTE: it [computer analysis] also showed that hundreds of millions of euros [for farm subsidies] are being paid to individuals and companies with little or no connection to traditional farming.	New York Times
Jul 13, 2009	China Broadens Investigation of Steel Industry QUOTE: The Chinese authorities have detained or questioned at least seven Chinese steel industry executives in a broadening corruption investigation...	New York Times
Jul 12, 2009	W. Va. soldiers sue firm for chemical exposure in Iraq: Seven soldiers from a W.Va. unit are suing a U.S. contractor for chemical exposure in Iraq QUOTE: lawsuit alleges that KBR managers knew about the site contamination [in Iraq] and the threat it posed, and "disregarded and downplayed the extreme danger" to West Virginia National Guardsmen.	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jul 07, 2009	Obama's Cyber Plan Raises Privacy Hackles QUOTE: privacy advocates monitoring the [federal cybersecurity] initiative are already raising concerns about what they know and what they don't: the details that have trickled out--including the involvement of the National Security Agency--and the veil of classified information that still covers much of the multibillion-dollar project.	Forbes
Jul 06, 2009	Report Faults Performance Bonuses for Contractors: Some Agencies 'Unaware' of Policy QUOTE: Federal agencies have awarded billions in bonuses to contractors regardless of whether the work was deemed satisfactory...	Washington Post
Jun 23, 2009	Increase in Native corporation contracts brings Senate scrutiny: CONTRACTS: Analysis reveals only a fifth were done in Alaska. QUOTE: From 2000 to 2008, only one-fifth of all contracts awarded to Alaska Native corporations were performed in Alaska... last year Alaska Native corporations received 19 percent of all federal contracts awarded to small businesses.	Anchorage Daily News
Jun 23, 2009	Clear Promises to Delete Sensitive Flier Data, but No Refunds (Epicenter: Mind our Tech Business) QUOTE: Clear, the most popular Registered Traveler company, shut down its airport lanes Monday night with just a few hours notice, stranding some 250,000 subscribers to its jump-to-the-front-of-the-airport security-line program and leaving them wondering Tuesday about refunds and the fate of the sensitive data they’d given the company.	Wired
Jun 10, 2009	Lobbyists unlimited in honoring lawmakers QUOTE: Despite a ban on gifts to lawmakers and limits on campaign contributions, lobbyists and groups that employ them can spend unlimited money to honor members of Congress or donate to non-profits connected to them or their relatives.	USA TODAY
Oct 11, 2007	Planned Bridge Poses Question: Public or Private QUOTE: Supporters of a publicly owned span here say it is the only wise plan, the only one that offers needed public oversight and regulation. They have deep concerns, they say, about allowing a single man to continue his decades-long reign over such a vital connector of nations.	New York Times
Jul 13, 2007	How to Sell the Airwaves? FCC Must Choose Between Competing Network Visions QUOTE: The airwaves that carry billions of calls, text messages and e-mails have become one of the hottest corporate properties .... Soon, one of the last available sections of airwaves -- and one of the most attractive -- will be sold, and the issue of how to manage that sale has become the focus of debate.	Washington Post
Apr 28, 2004	Justices Hear Arguments in Energy Task Force Case QUOTE: ...Olson said the vice president, "acting as the subordinate and surrogate for the president here," should not have to pay the price of submitting to discovery "in order to challenge the constitutionality of a process that's invasive to fundamental presidential prerogatives and responsibilities."	New York Times
Aug 22, 2002	Bush, Citing Fires, Will Seek to Ease Laws on Logging QUOTE: President Bush will ask Congress to relax environmental laws so the timber industry can step up logging across millions of acres of national forest land...	New York Times
Jul 21, 2001	States Steer Religious Charities Toward Aid QUOTE: ...local officials [in many states] are making unprecedented efforts to encourage religious charities to apply for government money.	New York Times
Jul 19, 2001	Faith Initiative Hits Snag in House: Gop Moderates' Bias Concerns Postpone Vote QUOTE: ...fierce opposition from Democrats and Republicans concerned about discrimination in federally funded charitable efforts.	Washington Post
May 30, 2001	Mortgage Subsidies At Issue: Fannie, Freddie Face Criticism Over Funds QUOTE: ...Fannie Mae and Freddie....pass about 66 percent of the subsidy on to home buyers in the form of lower mortgage prices but retain about a third of the subsidy for shareholders and employees.	Washington Post

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