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200462773Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. iii 81 p. Serial No. 108-102. The Chairman in opening the hearing noted a recent occurance that illustrated the danger of mercury toxicity and the costs in time and money if facilities needed to be decontaminated. The Chairman was concerned about the dangers of using highly toxic mercury in everyday medical and dental procedures. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200464434Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 103 p. Serial No. 108-250. This hearing was intended to focus on how the various Federal agencies with counternarcotics responsiblity were meeting the problem of illegal drug smuggling. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
200262768Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 330 p. Serial No. 107-44. This hearing focused on the Government's program for compensating familities that experience vaccine injuries in particular the operation of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The Committee Chairman expressed the opinion at the start that the program was NOT working as Congress had intended. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
200461678Washington DC: U. S> Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 508 p. Illustrations. Serial No. 108-276. This hearing was held at Kailua-Kona Hawaii. This hearing is a continuation of the subcommittee's work on the problem of methamphetamine abuse--a problem that was ravaging the State of Hawaii and other parts of the United States. Meth in Hawaii came from superlabs in California and Mexico and from small local laboratories. The hearing sought to address "Firstly what to we need to do to reduce the supply of meth " and "Second how shouldwe deal with the environmental issues created in the wake of a meth lab seizure " U. S> Government Printing Office hardcover
200464027Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Several front pages creased at bottom. iii 345 p. Includes illustrations. Serial No. 108-187. The committee recognized that prescription drug abuse presented special problems for the government the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry. They posed addiction problems. They could be sold on the black market. Doctors could intentionally or otherwise over-prescribe them. It was possible for patients to go to mutliple doctors and get multiple prescriptions enabling them to abuse the drugs. While these risks exist the committee also recognized that these drugs exist because they had legitmate medical uses and provided pain and other relief to patients for which there might be no alternative sources. The committee sought to ensure that there was an effective regulatory plan to balance these conflicting concerns. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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200066639Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. iv 280 p. Includes illustrations. Title continues; One Hundred Sixth Congress First Session July 22 1999. Serial No. 106-126. From Wikipedia: "Human immunodeficiency virus infection / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome HIV/AIDS is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus HIV. During the initial infection a person may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness. This is typically followed by a prolonged period without symptoms. As the illness progresses it interferes more and more with the immune system making people much more likely to get infections including opportunistic infections and tumors that do not usually affect people with working immune systems. HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse including anal and even oral sex contaminated blood transfusions and hypodermic needles and from mother to child during pregnancy delivery or breastfeeding. Some bodily fluids such as saliva and tears do not transmit HIV. Prevention of HIV infection primarily through safe sex and needle-exchange programs is a key strategy to control the spread of the disease. There is no cure or vaccine; however antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease and may lead to a near-normal life expectancy. While antiretroviral treatment reduces the risk of death and complications from the disease these medications are expensive and may be associated with side effects. Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC in 1981 and its cause HIV infection was identified in the early part of the decade. Since its discovery AIDS has caused nearly 30 million deaths as of 2009. As of 2010 approximately 34 million people have contracted HIV globally. AIDS is considered a pandemic a disease outbreak which is present over a large area and is actively spreading. HIV/AIDS has had a great impact on society both as an illness and as a source of discrimination. The disease also has significant economic impacts. There are many misconceptions about HIV/AIDS such as the belief that it can be transmitted by casual non-sexual contact. The disease has also become subject to many controversies involving religion." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
197059905Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1970. Wraps. Good. 3 vols.; 24 cm. Volume I: Relating to Chapters 1-13 of the Study Draft of a new Federal Criminal Code xxxv 742 vii; Volume II: Relating to Chapters 14-36 of the Study Draft of a new Federal Criminal Code xxxiv 743-1448 vii; Volume III: Miscellaneous Memoranda and Guidelines for Conforming Title 18 Parts II-V and Other Titles of the United States Code to the Proposals for a New Federal Criminal Code xv 1451-1748 publ. 1971. This commission was established by Congress in Public Law 89-801. Ex-library. Name of previous owner present. Usual library markings. Covers have some wear and soiling. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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200662284Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv 438 p. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. 109-150. Hearing held on February 14 2006. The Congressional perspective is illustrated by the Chairman's statement that "Seldom in our history has the need for the whiltleblower's unfiltered voice been more urgent particularly in the realms of national security and intelligence. " U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover
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78499Trade paperback. Very good. Format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9 inches. 12 LIX 1 232 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. References. Appendices. Minor wear and soiling. The Commission on Immigration Reform CIR was formed by Congress in 1990 to critically examine United States immigration policies. The bipartisan commission was chaired by the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan the highly esteemed civil rights advocate and is often referred to as the Jordan Commission. In a series of reports submitted between 1994 and 1997 the commission analyzed the impact of current immigration policies and issued recommendations for reform. The spirit of these recommendations was to return U.S. immigration policy to its stated intentions: reuniting nuclear families providing employers with skilled workers and providing humanitarian aid to refugees. The commission's primary recommendations were to improve controls against illegal immigration revamp the refugee and asylum admission system and reduce legal immigration. As mandated by the Immigration Act of 1990 the Commission conducted more than 40 public hearings consultations and site visits in the United States and some foreign countries. This final report makes recommendations to further the goals of Americanization by setting out immigrant policies to help orient immigrants and their new communities to improve educational programs that help immigrants and their children learn English and civics and to reinforce the integrity of the naturalization process by which immigrants become citizens. The report also makes recommendations for immigration policy repeating and updating the conclusions reached in three previous reports on unlawful migration legal immigration refugee and asylum policy and making additional recommendations for reforming immigration policies. The Commission urges a renewed commitment to the education of immigrant children and a recognition that education is the primary tool of Americanization for children and adults. paperback
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15475On letterhead of Frayn Herne Bay Kent. 7 August 1902. 2pp. 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. He asks him to accept a copy of the Tauchnitz edition of his 'Iron Mask' 'the only one I happen to have by me'. He continues: 'As you are kind enough to express an interest in work of mine I may say that I expect to be in the West of Ireland next month in the interests of the Daily Chronicle - if you ever happen to see that paper - for which I am to write a special series of letters describing the present condition of that district.' For more on Hopkins see his obituary in The Times 17 February 1919. On letterhead of Frayn, Herne Bay [Kent]. 7 August 1902. unknown
2642443 Berkeley Square "Friday Night". A note presumably in the recipient's hand states "London 14 July 1832. answered". Four pages 8vo bifolium some staining see image but all legible. "Tomorrow morning you will receive in George Street from the Librarian of the House of Lords copies of my two Protests and of Lord Wynford's Protest on the 3rd Reading of the English Reform Bill. I wiosh my Protests to be sent to the Editor of the Standard & Lord Wynford has commissioned me to send his also. Five of the Protests have already appeared in that Paper - which had expressed as I was informed a wish to have them & a readiness to publish them & any others that might be sent to the Editor. It is on this footing that these Protests must be sent. It must on no account appear - nor must a word be said to entitle the Editor to conclude - whatever he may suppose - that either Lord Wynford or I have anything to do with sending them. They must be conveyed to the Editor to publish - if he shall think fit phrase underlined - and must be sent in consequence of his expressing a wish to have & a readiness to publish the Protests. If he does not think fit to publish them he may let it alone & retyurn them. They are not to be paid for as advertisements or otherwise. If you are kind enough to undertake to forward them to the Paper - the Person who takes them may speak or it may bewritten but I should think not with a name in the following sense - that the Protests of Lords H & W are sent to the Standard by one who has reason to know that they are correct in consequence of the readiness expressed by the Editor to make known to the Public the Protests aginst the BILL- - and in consequence of several having already appeared. It might be as well to send them in time for tomorrows sic Evening Paper - or Mondays at furthest. I called in George Street today hoping to catch you before you left your office - but I was too late. I beg if you have any objection to undertaking this office - that you will make no scruple of delivering it. You will find that I could hardly send my Protests in my own name Believe me to be .". POSTSCRIPT They told me at the House of Lords that they were not sent from thence to the Papers. Their not having been sent long ago was very stupid. I hope you will make Dr Coventry understand how absolutely inappropriate it was for me or any one else to make any amendments in so difficult a matter at such a stage - without warning or preparation & in si=uch a House! phrase underlined It was quite out of the question. The thing must now work its own way - if possible to correct them - as they shew themselves in the working of this elaborate & complicated & machine; Should thge Librarian not have sent them to your office in due time - perhaps you will send to him for them. I wrote my name in my two Protests - it would be better to scratch that out." Note: "Lord Haddington went on to vote against the Reform Bill in 1831 but later changed his mind and voted for it in 1832 possibly due to the political crises surrounding its passage." Wikipedia 43 Berkeley Square, "Friday Night". A note presumably in the recipient's hand states "London 14 July 1832. ans[wered]". unknown
