Balance sheet.Search Party Airports in Seattle, Minneapolis--St. Paul, and Atlanta buck a directive from the Transportation Security Administration to search cars entering airport grounds. Airport officials say they need probable cause. Sober State Maine plans to get out of the booze biz and save $100 million in the process. Like many states, Maine serves as the sole liquor wholesaler for Local retail outlets and operates 13 stores itself, ensuring Soviet-level selection and service. Loud and Clear Telecom analysts and Net providers begin to see that Internet phone service See VoIP. could challenge the incumbent Bell monopolies. Unfortunately, so do the Bells and their buddies, the regulators. Price Drop Microsoft says it might have to drop its prices due to competition from open source software such as Linux. Consumers will win, but only if Linux competes on merit and not via government mandates. Some jurisdictions now require new government software buys to be open source. OMB OMB abbr. Office of Management and Budget Noun 1. OMB - the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget Office of Management and Budget Bomb Amid the bland budget boilerplate A phrase or body of text used verbatim in different documents such as a signature at the end of a letter. Boilerplate is widely used in the legal profession as many paragraphs are used over and over in agreements with little modification or no modification. , the Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), formerly the Bureau of the Budget, is an agency of the federal government that evaluates, formulates, and coordinates management procedures and program objectives within and among departments and agencies of the Executive Branch. notes that the Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established in 1973 by President richard m. nixon as part of the Justice Department, thus uniting a number of federal drug agencies that had often worked at cross-purposes. "is unable to demonstrate progress in reducing the availability of illegal drugs in the United States." The OEA OEA Organizacion de Estados Americanos (OAS in English) OEA Organização dos Estados Americanos (Portuguese: Organization of American States) OEA Office of The Employment Advocate says it just needs to redefine its accomplishments. Ad Health TV ads for prescription drugs seem to help patients talk to their doctors. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Health care The major teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, widely regarded as one of the best health care centers in the world , Harvard University, and Harris Interactive find that one quarter of patients surveyed got new treatment for serious ailments as a result of asking questions about TV ads. Convenient Theory Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N R-N Raion (Russian, district; used in postal addresses) .C.) claims the terrorist threat is more widespread and insidious than we thought. "Look at who runs all the convenience stores across the country," she explains. Ourvery Big Gulps are at risk. Junk Dealers Dim bulbs across the country gather up Columbia debris and attempt to sell it via the online auction site eBay; they get caught more or less immediately. The profit motive can move even the profoundly stupid. Kinko's Cops The FBI at first denies, then admits, flying a spy plane over Bloomington, Indiana. The bureau explains it is merely watching places where foreign nationals might be able to send a fax or e-mail late at night. Oh. Cold Cash As if enough isn't already smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border, add Freon to the list. The U.S. banned the refrigerant re·frig·er·ant adj. 1. Cooling or freezing; refrigerating. 2. Reducing fever. n. 1. A substance, such as air, ammonia, water, or carbon dioxide, used to provide cooling either as the working substance of in 1996, but it's likely to be legal in Mexico until at least 2010. Demand for Freon will remain high until all the pre-1994 cars with air conditioning are off the road. No Dice Math .teachers across America use "probability cubes" to teach math concepts to kids. You call them dice. Schools don't, so as notto encourage gambling. Visa Excepted Stepped-up security worries have U.S. businesses hamstrung by visa backlogs. Mexican tourists wait months for visas to go to Florida, while foreign buyers of big-ticket items such as planes and construction equipment can't get into the country to finalize sales. |
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