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	Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This lasted until the next emperor, Dom Pedro II was deposed and a federal republic was established on 15 November 1889.
		The 1988 constitution grants broad powers to the federal government, of which the President and Vice-President are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-year terms.
		Brazil and its 26 states and Federal District are divided by IBGE into 5 distinctive regions : North, Northeast, Center-West, Southeast and South ( Division by Regions).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brazil (1359 words)

	Germany - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Federal Republic of Germany ( German : Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union.
		The 16 Bundesländer are represented at the federal level in the Bundesrat (Federal Council), which—depending on the subject matter—may have a say in the legislative procedure.
		The Federal Republic is bordered to the north by Denmark, to its east by Poland and the Czech Republic, to the south by Austria and Switzerland and to its west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Germany (3903 words)

	Federal Dependencies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Dependencies of Venezuela encompass all of Venezuela 's off shore islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Venezuela.
		These islands, with a total area of 342 square kilometres, are sparsely populated - according to official sources only 3000 people live there permanently, with another hundred from Margarita Island who live there seasonally to engage in fishing.
		The federal dependencies are composed of 600 islands and smaller formations; many have an area of less than 10 000 square metres and are essentially simple rocks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Dependencies (139 words)

	Comparative Federalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Federalism has proven remarkably enduring as an organizing principle for governments in countries that seek to maintain elements of both unity and diversity in their populaces and political institutions.
		A unique characteristic of the Canadian policy is the existence of a large francophone minority with the federation; this is concentrated primarily in one constituent unit of the federation, the province of Quebec, where it forms the majority.
		Federalism, however, was essentially imposed by a small white oligarchy upon an unwilling majority of native Africans, and served to accelerate the spread of militant African nationalism.
	www.floyd.edu /subwebs/dcassity/comparative_federalism.htm (5562 words)

	Market*Access International - Project Matrix
		However, the many agencies of the Federal government perform a wide range of functions and services vital to our national and homeland security, economic stability, and public health and safety; functions such as public health advisories, social entitlements, and weather forecasting, which the private sector can’t or won’t perform.
		Thus, many departments and agencies in the Federal government contribute to critical infrastructure assurance because they are responsible and accountable for maintaining appropriate levels of systems security, emergency preparedness, and continuity of government operations.
		Once such critical assets and associated dependencies are identified, Federal departments and agencies must assess their vulnerability to physical or cyber interruptions and develop and implement plans to manage risk.
	www.marketaccess.org /project_matrix.asp (386 words)

	Forum of Federations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Federal systems are also often juxtaposed with very diverse modes of government or approaches to management.
		As a result, neither the federal government nor the governments of the various constituent regions are constitutionally subordinate to one another.
		One approach consists of increasing the federal government’s authority in regions where the state’s capacity to exercise legislative authority is less advanced or is temporarily undermined.
	www.decentralization.ws /icd2/papers/federalism_principles.htm (3278 words)

	GAO-03-233, Critical Infrastructure Protection: Challenges for Selected Agencies and Industry Sectors
		Once these assets and dependencies are identified, further steps will be necessary, such as conducting or updating vulnerability assessments, managing identified vulnerabilities, and ensuring that these assets are appropriately considered in planning for the continuity of essential agency operations.
		Once critical assets and their associated dependencies are identified, the agencies are to assess their vulnerability to physical or cyber attack and, if vulnerabilities are found, to develop and implement plans to manage the risks posed by potential attacks to the performance of essential functions and services.
		Although federal continuity-of-operations guidance does not specify how often plans should be updated, plans over 2 years old predate the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, and for Energy and EPA, predate the identification of their tentative critical assets.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d03233.html (13787 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
		The federal government was in distress; many of the states were on the verge of civil war.
		This was a palpable violation of the Federal Constitution, which guarantees to the citizens of each state the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states.
		After 1862 the Federal Government began to construct a new type of warship known as "Monitors", which were found effective in coping with the Southern ironclads, and resulted in the maintenance of the blockade of the Southern ports.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm (21292 words)

	Federal Foreign Banking Act
		The fact that the certificate is made to enable the persons subscribing the same, and all other persons, firms, companies and corporations who or which may thereafter subscribe to or purchase shares of the capital stock of such corporation, to avail themselves of the advantages of this section.
		Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the federal reserve board, under its power to prescribe rules and regulations, from limiting the aggregate amount of liabilities of any or all classes incurred by the corporation and outstanding at any one time.
		The shares of any such corporation may continue to be for the same amount each as they were before the conversion, and the directors may continue to be directors of the corporation until others are elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this section.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/money-8.shtml (1355 words)

	Federalism - principles, flexibility and limitations...Celine Auclair.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The goal of this presentation is neither to sing the praises of federalism, nor to claim that federalism is the only possible way to accommodate the national aspirations of the different groups and regions of the Philippines.
		Certain federations, however, have enshrined in their constitutions provisions separating executive and administrative responsibilities in certain fields of jurisdiction.
		As previously mentioned, the constitutions of federal countries determine the division of legislative and executive powers, as well as the distribution of financial resources, to ensure that the various levels of government have real autonomy.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivedec02/021207602.htm (3332 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Depending on the selection of the subcontractor, it may be possible to request that the subcontractor provide sample STEP and/or VRML files for utilization within the testbed.
		Depending on the results of the analysis, it may not be possible to develop a reasonable STEP AP to support the patent application and prosecution process within the scope of this task.
		Depending on the results of the analysis of the potential applicability of STEP, the actual development of a tailored STEP AP to support the patent application process may be deferred to a later date.
	www.sdsc.edu /DOCT/Publications/rdps/rdps_chap4a.html (18551 words)

	Venezuelan Constitution - Wikisource
		Such law may provide for the creation of federal territorial in certain areas within the States, the taking effect of which shall be subject to the holding of a referendum to approve the same in the organ concerned.
		Article 17: Federal dependencies are the maritime islands which are not incorporated into the territory of a State, as well as any island that may form or appear in the territorial sea or that covering the continental sheaf.
		The Federal Council on Government, based on regional unbalances, shall discuss and approve annually the resources to be allocated to the Inter-territorial Compensation Fund and the priority investment areas to which these resources are to be applied.
	wikisource.org /wiki/Venezuelan_Constitution (17553 words)

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		On this, the court first found it unclear whether national banks retain their status as federal instrumentalities, and the court therefore labeled "problematic" the argument "that Edge Act banks are Federal instrumentalities because they are analogous to national banks" (J.S. App.
		They receive no federal financial assistance, and the government is not liable for their obligations.
		To the contrary, Section 615(b) authorizes Edge corporations to maintain "branches or agencies in foreign countries, their dependencies or colonies, and in the dependencies or insular possessions of the United States," and this provision plainly could have been read as prohibiting, by negative implication, the operation of agencies or branches in the United States.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1987/sg870123.txt (4440 words)

	NGA: GNS; FIPS PUB 10-4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS PUBS) are issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology after approval by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to Section 111(d) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended by the Computer Security Act of 1987, Public Law 100-235.
		It may also be used for Federal interchanges of information with the non-Federal sector including industry, State, local, and other Governments, and the public at large.
		Federal agencies that do not require FIPS PUB 104-1 for international data interchange, and that are not involved in national defense programs or with the mission of the U.S. Department of State, may adopt either FIPS PUB 10-4 or FIPS PUB 104-1.
	earth-info.nga.mil /gns/html/fips10-4.html (1699 words)

	Data Element: Geopolitical Entity Name and Code - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
		Full names and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes for representing the basic geopolitical entities (countries, dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty) of the world and their principal administrative divisions.
		An electronic copy of the values to be used for the basic geopolitical entities (countries, dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty) of the world is available here in ASCII (.txt) and Access (.mdb) formats.
		Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 10-4, "Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions", dated April 1995.
	www.fws.gov /stand/standards/de_geopolitical.html (967 words)

	Coastal Zone Management Certification (CZM) - Handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Activities & developments performed by or for federal agencies require a CZM determination be submitted stating that the project is consistent with Washington's Coastal Zone Management Program (WCZMP) to the "maximum extent practicable." Federal permitted/licensed or federal funded projects require a certification that they are consistent with WCZMP.
		Federal activity, projects requiring a federal license or permit and Federal Assistance Programs proposed within any of Washington's 15 coastal counties.
		Federal agency activities; projects requiring federal permits or licenses and federal assistance programs (funded).
	apps.ecy.wa.gov /permithandbook/permitdetail.asp?id=46 (242 words)

	Public Policy of ASAM: Fair Treatment of Persons Whose Job Performance is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although alcoholism and other drug dependencies are recognized as diseases that cause disability, and although it has been demonstrated that intervention through employee assistance programs in the workplace is a cost-effective means to bring recovery, recent events have threatened the availability of this approach to alcoholic and addicted employees.
		Babbitt, ruled that Federal agencies are not required to offer an employee a "firm choice" between treatment for alcoholism and discharge, but may terminate the employee, even when the employment deficiency in question is known to be addiction-related.
		Employees whose job performance is impaired by alcoholism and/or other drug dependencies should have the same protection under the law as employees disabled by other diseases and be offered the opportunity for rehabilitation.
	www.asam.org /ppol/job.htm (382 words)

	FIPS 10-4 - Country Codes
		A Federal Program Standard is intended for use in a particular program or mission where more than one executive branch department or independent agency is involved with its use.
		Applicability: This Federal program data element and representation standard is made available for interchange among Federal departments and independent agencies and for Federal interchange with the non-Federal sector including industry, State, local, and other Governments, and the public at large.
		Federal agencies that do not require FIPS PUB 104 for international data interchange, and are not involved in national defense programs or with the mission of the U.S. Department of State, may adopt either set of codes.
	www.itl.nist.gov /fipspubs/fip10-3.htm (2138 words)

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		Liability of shareholders on unpaid subscriptions; membership of corporation in Federal reserve bank prohibited -STATUTE- Shareholders in any corporation organized under the provisions of this subchapter shall be liable for the amount of their unpaid stock subscriptions.
		The shares of any such corporation may continue to be for the same amount each as they were before the conversion, and the directors may continue to be directors of the corporation until others are elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
		Section 12B was withdrawn from the Federal Reserve Act and made a separate act to be known as the Federal Deposit Insurance Act by section 1 of act Sept. 21, 1950, ch.
	uscode.house.gov /download/pls/12C6.txt (5469 words)

	House Committee on Science
		The purpose of this exercise is to ensure that the Federal government continues to be able to deliver services essential to the nation’s security, economy, or the health and safety of its citizens, notwithstanding deliberate attempts to disrupt such services through cyber or physical attacks.
		Once such critical assets and associated dependencies are identified, Federal departments and agencies must assess their vulnerability to physical or cyber attack.
		Together with the lead federal agencies, and guided strategically by the Office of Homeland Security, the IIPO will: (a) create an essential information inventory; (b) determine horizontal and vertical sharing requirements; (c) define a target architecture for information sharing; and (d) determine the personnel, software, hardware, and technical resources needed to implement the architecture.
	www.house.gov /science/hearings/full02/jun27/tritak.htm (2307 words)

	Public Policy of ASAM: Parity in Benefit Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As America continues to confront unprecedented problems from the wide spread prevalence of alcoholism and other drug dependencies and the annual direct and indirect costs these problems create, access to treatment for addictive diseases is becoming increasingly important.
		Many persons in need of such treatment are covered for their overall health care by a variety of public and private third-party payment plans that severely restrict or exclude addiction treatment services, thereby denying patients access to quality care.
		Specifically, the federal government prohibits the use by health plans of annual and lifetime financial caps which are different from mental illness and other physical illnesses.
	www.asam.org /ppol/ambha2.htm (887 words)

	Constitution of the Republic of Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alterations of boundaries and exchanges or cessions of territory between the Federal District or the Federal Territories or Dependencies and the States may be accomplished through agreements between the National Executive and the pertinent States, ratified by the corresponding legislative Assemblies and by the Senate.
		By a special law a Federal Territory may be given the status of a State and allotted all or part of the area of the Territory concerned.
		The Federal Dependencies are those portions of the territory of the Republic not included in the States, Territories, and Federal District, and also such islands as may be formed or appear in the territorial sea or in the sea covering the continental shelf.
	confinder.richmond.edu /local_venezuela.html (17726 words)

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		It has a land area of 916,446 km2, a population estimated at 24,896,379 inhabitants in 2000; 33.2% of the population is under the age of 15 and 6.5% is over 60 (Figure 1).
		Government policy, and health policy in particular, is implemented by the specific government agencies and the Federal Council of Government, the entity in charge of planning and coordinating policies and actions aimed at decentralizing and transferring the competencies of the central government to the states and municipalities.
		The MSyDS and the federal entities are obliged to protect those population groups that lack any other kind of public insurance (35%); however, in practice, the Ministry’s outpatient network serves approximately 80% of the population.
	www.paho.org /english/dd/ais/be_v25n3-profile-venezuela.htm (3161 words)

	TITLE II
		There shall be no conveyance of title to vacant land existing within the federal dependencies and on islands in rivers and lakes, and the right to use the same shall be granted only in a manner that does not involve, directly or indirectly, the transfer of title to the land.
		The political division of the territory shall be regulated by an organic law which shall guarantee municipal autonomy and administrative/political decentralization.
		: Federal dependencies are the maritime islands which are not incorporated into the territory of a State, as well as any island that may form or appear in the territorial sea or that covering the continental sheaf.
	www.embavenez-us.org /constitution/title_II.htm (734 words)

	Federal Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Since 1894, the Tacoma Public Library has been a selective Federal Depository Library, receiving publications from numerous federal agencies, as well as the fourteen executive departments and the legislative and judicial branches of the United States government.
		Federal documents come to the Tacoma Public Library in print, microfiche, and CD-ROM formats as well as via the World Wide Web.
		Access to federal publications on the World Wide Web is available at all branches of the Tacoma Public Library.
	www.tpl.lib.wa.us /v2/Reference/feddoc.htm (878 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The objective of the CO is to describe the DOCT architecture and functionality in terms appropriate to the mission of the DOCT sponsors and other federal agencies.
		This is important because additional federal agency participation (and funding) will provide the option of expanding the scope and/or accelerating the RandD schedule for the project.
		H3-3 is dependent on H1-1 and H2-2, both the RDPS and Concept of Operations reports.
	www.sdsc.edu /DOCT/Publications/rdps/rdps_chap4h.html (1643 words)

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