Sentences with phrase «general report concluding»

The GAO statements followed an EPA Inspector general report concluding that «agency scientists had been pressured to back the approach preferred by industry» in re-creating mercury regulations.

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Although the Auditor General concludes that the federal government's finances are sustainable over the long term, he raises a number of important issues in his report.

Finally, the Auditor General's report observes that background material produced internally for the Department of Finance in 2009 concluded that the elderly benefit system was sustainable in the long term.

The Auditor General in his latest report concluded that the Finance Department has no idea as to the effectiveness tax expenditures are distorting economic decisions, misallocating resources and reducing market efficiencies and productivity.

The VA inspector general concluded in the report that Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and airfare for his wife at taxpayer expense, he spent nearly half the 10 - day trip to Denmark and London last year sightseeing and he used an aide on official time to plan the leisure activities.

But the two sources said he made the request in a call initiated by VA Press Secretary Curt Cashour on Feb. 15, the day after the release of an inspector general's report that concluded Shulkin had misused taxpayer dollars during a European trip last year.

In April, the state inspector general released a report that concluded that Patricia Snyder, NYSTI's founder and producing artistic director for 36 years, had engaged in nepotism, self - enrichment and questionable spending of state funds.

Eventual Winners The EIU special reports concluded last month, separately prepared on country - by - country analysis ahead of the elections and released from London over the weekend, said Nana Akufo - Addo will become the eventual winner and President of Ghana after an «acrimonious» contest in the November general election, while Mrs. Clinton will defeat Mr. Trump in the US polls.

The report concluded with a recommendation to refer the findings to the attorney general «for further investigation and prosecution as appropriate.»

Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott concluded in a report on Tuesday that those are ethical lapses, citing inadequate supervision and a faulty conflict - of - interest policy that was recently revised.

«David Cameron could inherit a dysfunctional Whitehall machine unable to deliver his programme if he wins the general election, a damning report into the state of the civil service under Gordon Brown concludes.

By 1994 the General Accounting Office (GAO, now known as the Government Accountability Office) issued a report concluding that the «FAA has made little progress toward meeting the [1990] act's goal for deploying new explosive detection systems.»

«Competing considerations, such as national security concerns and the desire to reopen Wall Street, also played a role in EPA's air quality statements,» the Inspector General concluded in a 2003 report [pdf].

The evidence «overwhelmingly» suggests that cholera was inadvertently introduced to Haiti by U.N. peacekeepers, an independent panel concludes in a report to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon that was released yesterday.

«Available research does not support the claim that increasing science literacy will lead to appreciably greater support for science in general,» the report concludes.

According to a wellness report by Berkley University, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) categorizes BHT as GRAS (generally recognized as safe), however the report indicates that BHT never underwent a pre-market review and that subsequent reviews supported their general safety but concluded that «uncertainties exist, requiring that additional studies be conducted.»

The Jan. 31 audit report by the inspector general's office of the U.S. Department of Education concluded that the state «provided reasonable assurance that [hurricane] funds were appropriately allocated» to districts and...

It's too soon to draw sweeping conclusions about the academic impact of privately financed programs that provide vouchers to help needy families send their children to private schools, the General Accounting Office concludes in a recent report.

In fact, a recent General Accounting Office report concluded, of the $ 27.5 billion in federal funds appropriated in fiscal year 1989 and determined in part by decennial census figures,...

Our report concluded that, in general, the evaluation systems we examined do a decent job of distinguishing teachers based on characteristics of classroom performance that predict how teachers will perform in subsequent years.

WASHINGTON — Canada's experience with developing and implementing standards and assessments offers lessons for educators and policymakers considering taking such steps in this country, a report by the General Accounting Office concludes.

So concludes a recent report by the General Accounting Office, which examined hiring trends at 24 agencies between 1980 and 1986 at the request of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

The final inspection report by the U.S. Department of Education's inspector general's office concluded that department officials may have intended to «stack» the panels of grant reviewers with those who favored a particular teaching methodology.

The Brown Center report concludes that whatever is depressing NAEP scores is more general than the application of one set of standards or another.

Specifically, the 1966 report entitled Equality in Educational Opportunity and commonly referred to as the Coleman report in deference to its senior author (Coleman et al., 1966) involved more than 640,000 students in grades 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 and concludes the following: «Taking all these results together, one implication stands above all: that schools bring little to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context» (p. 235).

The Spens report on secondary education published in 1938 concluded that there is general agreement that much of what is most valuable in the grammar school tradition depends on the existence of a sixth form, and given that all existing grammar schools have a sixth form, this 80 - year - old shibboleth could continue to influence the government's thinking.

But as Manuel Lage has discovered the first car to bear the name was an Alfonso Hispano - Suiza / Americans to the Rear — Rear engined designs — Part Three / Americans to the Rear — Concluding his series on American rear engined cars Karl Ludvigsen examines the role played by General Motors / Epicyclic Gearing — Workshop — Part Two / Settlers Special — A cut - down 1933 Riley Monaco shipped to Vancouver by an ex-pat in the»50s formed the basis for Miles Fenton's ideal supercharged special / Racing in the Rain — Alan Smith has been using his camera to good effect at motor sporting events for over 50 years / Ards TT 75th Anniversary — John Payne reports on the 75th Anniversary of the Ards TT / The Little Engine that could — Gavin Farmer celebrates the Jowett Bradford / It's quicker by Rail — Brian Heath's subject this month is a 1939 Railton long chassis special limousine.

Abingdon's One And A Half — Jonathan Wood recalls the VA the smallest of the three saloons made by MG towards the end of the»30s / Pau: A Popular Revival — The inaugural Grand Prix Historique contained all the ingredients for lasting success reports Douglas Blain / Bellows To Buses — Norman Painting relates how a West Midlands general engineer became a diversified vehicle producer but lost the plot after the First World War / Maudslay's Might - Have - Beens — Concluding Nick Baldwin's account of the early years of the Maudslay Motor Co. / Japanese Microcars — Michael Worthington - Williams recalls some amazing light cars and microcars produced up to the 1950s when Japan was far from the successful motor manufacturing nation it is today / Phantom a La Packard — This month the Editor tries out a Phantom II whose dual cowl bodywork was modelled on a Packard phaeton.

The report noted the general inadequacy of industry risk - models used to target risk and concluded that PHMSA needs more information to effectively assess the performance of pipeline Integrity Management.

OTTAWA — The spring 2015 Auditor General of Canada's Report concludes that key responsibilities have not been fulfilled by the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada to address inadequacies to help the prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

And in a blistering September 2005 report, the inspector general found an ineffective monitoring and inspection system and concluded the USDA failed to take action against «violators who compromised... animal health.»

«To our knowledge, this is the first study concluding a severe and general decrease in sperm concentration and morphology at the scale of a whole country over a substantial period,» wrote environmental health epidemiologist Dr Joelle Le Moal, and author of the report.

The Summary Report of the World Climate Change Conference in 2003 concluded: «An overwhelming majority of the scientific community has accepted (the IPCC's) general conclusions that climate change is occurring, is primarily a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and that this represents a threat to people and ecosystems.»

This report concluded that DRI could not be interpreted as prohibiting general and indiscriminate data retention as a matter of principle, or as establishing criteria — all of which must be fulfilled — in order for legislation to be deemed proportionate.

In any event, the Palmer Report to the UN Secretary - General in 2011, which examined the Mavi Marmara incident, and the Israeli blockade more broadly, concluded that:

A 2016 Surgeon General's report on e-cigarettes concluded that e-cigarette use among youth and young adults «is now a major public health concern.»

On 30 September, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office issued a report concluding an investigation into victimless cannabis - related activities alleged to have involved a number of New Hampshire state legislators.

A 2006 report from the U.S. Surgeon General's office concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke causes heart disease and indicated that smoke - free policies are the most economical and effective way to reduce exposure.

A report from the US Surgeon General concluded that nurse home visiting has shown significant effects on the incidence of violence, delinquency, and other related risk factors.32 Benefits in child development and child health are less clear, and the evidence for their support is inconsistent.