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Search results for "treaty" ...
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"Black Money"
This investigative report reveals that a "trillion dollars in bribes," are paid each year regardless of an international anti-bribery treaty that is in place. The bribes, also known as "black money," are used by "multinational companies" to get overseas business. The bribes cause a break in the "stability of governments" and "distort the marketplace."
Tags: Margaret Thatcher; British Aerospace; Department of Justice; Saudi Arabia; bribery; bribes; World Bank; Securities and Exchange Commission; Jimmy Carter
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Tribes pull in profits, grants
While Oklahoma Indian tribes earn more money than ever from gaming and other businesses, they continue to collect federal grant funds for housing, medical care, education and other needs at an increasing rate, federal records show. It turns out that there is no formula or relationship between a tribe’s ability to support itself and the amount the federal government decides to give it. Some of these grants, for housing and education, are required by treaties between tribes and the U.S. government, but many are not.
Tags: Indian tribes; gaming; business; FAADS; Federal Award Assistance Data System; Oklahoma; federal funding; grants
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Imaginary Weapons
"Imaginary Weapons describes the rise of 'fringe science' in the Pentagon. It focuses on how the Pentagon sank millions of dollars into an exotic weapon - the "hafnium bomb"- that would rival the power of a nuclear weapon… Imaginary Weapons has three major findings: Pentagon officials systematically ignore scientific advice that contradicts their beliefs; the military is easily seduced by the promise of exotic new weapons unconstrained by arms control treaties; and declining technical expertise has made national security institutions vulnerable to outlandish claims and bogus science."
Tags: Pentagon; military; weapons; experiments; development
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Innocents Abroad
Parents have resorted to abductions, sometimes with violent consequences, in order to gain custody of their children because the international system designed to mediate such disputes is fatally flawed. Newsday documented cases in which parents hired mercenaries to snatch back their children from foreign countries. The reporter also documented cases in which, even when courts rule that parents have the right to gain custody of their children, a jumbled legal system often prevents of delays lawful transfers for years. There are more than 1,000 American children being unlawfully held overseas.
Tags: abduction; custody; mercenaries; child recovery; parental kidnapping; Hague Convention on International Child Abduction; U.S. Borders; recovering abducted children; child custody; Hague Treaty; international custody; International Courts; Parental Kidnapping Crime Act; FBI
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Utah got burned in weapons screw-up
"A decade of missteps delayed a process intended to rid the United States of its arsenal of a deadly chemical weapon agent, cost taxpayers millions of dollars and contributed to America's failure to meet the destruction deadline set by an international treaty."
Tags: weapons; chemical weapons; tax money; treaty; Deseret Chemical Depot; military; army
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Unexpected rate rises jot elders insure for long-term care: Two purveyors in particular implied stable premiums but boosted them often
Insurance companies sold long-term care packages for elderly people that included a number of benefits and the promise that rates would never change. But The Wall Street Journal uncovered files that show that two of the main companies -Conseco and Penn Treaty- are asking their clients to pay increases of 8 to 40 percent. Some people have had to drop their insurance because they can't afford it anymore.
Tags: health insurance; elderly; long-term care; Conseco; Penn Treaty
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Tax Cheats
The Times reports on how companies and rich families use off-shore services -- such as registering in Bermuda, under the advice of Ernst & Young -- to avoid paying taxes. The stories reveal that the federal government has lost billions of dollars each year in evaded taxes. As a result of the uproar, many Republicans in Congress have broken with the party leadership and have voted to tighten the legal loophole.
Tags: federal contracts; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); offshore companies; Justice Department; tax treaties
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Hitting the Mark
Environment examines the effectiveness of various types of international environmental agreements. The success of an international regime depends on how it affects the behavior of the stakeholders involved, the article reveals. Part of the changes were achieved by reshaping "the ways in which actors define their interests." For example, international regimes that have initiated changes in national laws, have had their effect by imposing authoritative prescriptions that "supersede utilitarian calculations as determinants of behavior."
Tags: Antarctic treaty regime; stratospheric ozone regime; natural resources; the Barents Sea arrangement; intentional oil pollution; ecosystems
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Do Congressional Hearings Still Matter?, They Still Make a Difference, A Personal Note on Congressional Hearings, A Day in the Life of a Committee, The Changing Role of the Committee
A World & I three-story special report examines the importance of congressional hearings over the decades after the World War II and today. The main story in the package looks at the role that hearings played in political scandals, discussions of seminal laws, and celebrity showcases. The article also provides insights on how and when some today's politicians - Bill Clinton and his wife amongst them - had their first experience with congressional hearings. Another story reports on the daily work of the Joint Economic Committee, and reveals the mechanisms through which it can impact world financial markets. A third story focuses on the diminishing importance of committees to the legislative process, and the increase of partisanship that further undermines the committee system. "Committees are likely to remain important, but they will become increasingly irrelevant from the standpoint of legislation," the special report concludes.
Tags: Marshall plan; Nixon; Watergate; Lyndon Johnson; presidents; Carter; treaties; public support; Alan Greenspan; Congress Senate
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Reflections on the Little Bighorn
A collection of articles about the Plains Indians and the Battle of Little Bighorn, 125 years later. Details the Indians struggles with settlers, their battles with Custer and their efforts to maintain their ethnic heritage. "This Little Bighorn retrospective was researched, written, edited and designed by students and staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communication."
Tags: Native Americans; treaties; reservations; military; war; religion