U.S. foreign policy and the domestic concerns of Middle Eastern states are influencing the pursuit of the global war on terror in the Middle East. A close view of Saudi Arabia reveals the complex interaction of these forces. The U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia and the global war on terror are important challenges to the U.S. administration that have region-wide ramifications. Saudi Arabia has been facing down Islamist insurgency along with other challenges since September 11, 2001 and with even more urgency since May 2OO3. The Kingdom clearly remains a major political and economic force in the region. The income from its vast oil resources primarily has funded its strong influence, and the Kingdom has, in turn sponsored poorer developing Arab nations. Furthermore, its Islamic influence has been apparent in the broader Muslim world, and the United States has maintained a strong relationship with the Kingdom for many decades.
U.S. foreign policy and the domestic concerns of Middle Eastern states are influencing the pursuit of the global war on terror in the Middle East. A close view of Saudi Arabia reveals the complex interaction of these forces.
SAMHSA Has Not Fully Planned for Future Workforce Needs, but Has Taken Steps to Improve Staff Effectiveness SAMHSA's strategic workforce planning lacks key elements to ensure that the agency has staff with the appropriate expertise to ...
... All the products of digital systems technologies depend on computing capability in one way or another, and computing capability ... Very large-scale integrated circuits, the building blocks of computers and communications systems, ...
Sustained Coordination Among Key Federal Education Programs Could Enhance State Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality
Policymakers and researchers have focused on improving the quality of our nation's 3 million teachers to raise the achievement of students in key academic areas, such as reading and mathematics. Given the importance of teacher quality to student achievement and the key role federal and state governments play in supporting teacher quality, the objectives for this report included examining: (1) the extent that the U.S. Dept. of Education (DoE) funds and coordinates teacher quality programs; (2) studies that DoE conducts on teacher quality and how it provides and coordinates research-related assistance to states and school districts; and (3) challenges to collaboration within states and how DoE helps address those challenges. Illus.
Sustained Coordination Among Key Federal Education Programs Could Enhance State Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality ... professional development and scientifically based methods and materials on children's language development and ...
ø(f) NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION .— [(1) FINDINGS .—The Congress finds as follows: [(A) Despite efforts to expand and improve preschool programs, many children still reach school age unprepared to ...
Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Transportation. GAO-03-108. GAO-03-107. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department ofState. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Labor.
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.
Discusses federal oversight of depository institutions' Internet banking activities. The objectives of this report are to (1) describe the risks posed by Internet banking & the extent of any industrywide Internet banking-related problems, (2) assess the methods used by regulators to track depository institutions' plans to provide Internet banking services, (3) determine how regulators examined Internet banking activities, & (4) determine the extent to which regulators examined firms providing Internet banking support services to depository institutions.
Studies product innovation and firm survival in the U.S. ATM-debit card industry. The industry started with a few shared ATM networks in the early 1970s; the number of networks grew rapidly until the mid 1980s and then declined sharply. A theoretical model is constructed to explain the industry shakeout, A major product innovation -- introducing the point of sale debit function in the mid-1980s -- played an important role in driving the network consolidation. The predictions are tested and confirmed using a novel dataset on network entry, exit, size, location, ownership and product choices. There was little advantage of being early industry entrants; rather, large networks had a better chance to adopt the product innovation and survive the shakeout. Illus.
