However, the conflict was stopped with the intervention of International Security Assistance Force forces and soldiers of the Afghan National Army, freezing the conflict in its tracks.

The Afghan National Police is in control of security while the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) also has a heavy presence in and around the city.

Among these were the National Spiritual Mobilization Movement, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.

Other notable organizations that were founded during this period included the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the National Organization for Victim Assistance.

The Printer's National Environmental Assistance Center says " Screenprinting is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes.

Short-term unemployment benefits were increased, while the National Assistance Board was merged with the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance to become the new Ministry of Social Security, which replaced national assistance with supplementary benefit, improved benefit scale rates, and provided a statutory right to benefit for the out-of-work needy.

In 1968, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Security were amalgamated into the Department of Health and Social Security, the purpose of which was to coordinate benefits in cash with benefits in kind since “ the services needed to deal with social insecurity are not cash benefits only, but health and welfare as well .” An Act was passed which replaced National Assistance with Supplementary Benefits.

Unlike the National Assistance scheme, which operated like state charity for the worst-off, the new Supplementary Benefits scheme was a right of every citizen who found himself or herself in severe difficulties.

Under the 1966 Social Security Act, newly unemployed individuals were no longer denied assistance during their first month of unemployment, while men who had had their unemployment benefit disallowed for six weeks ( on the grounds that they had been at fault for losing their job ) were no longer subjected to a harsh rule applied by the National Assistance confining their payments to below “ benefit rate .” Instead, a policy was adopted of paying these individuals their full entitlement less 15 shillings. T he Act also introduced a long term addition of 9 shillings for all pensioners receiving supplementary benefit and for others ( with the exception of those required register for employment ) receiving supplementary benefits for two years.

* 1974 – National Mass Transportation Assistance Act PL 93-503

The National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 is a United States federal law that extended the Urban Mass Transportation Act to cover operating costs as well as construction costs.

Benefits and topics include ; VA Health Care Benefits, Veterans with Service-Connected Disabilities, VA Pensions, Education and Training, Home Loan Guaranty, VA Life Insurance, Burial and Memorial Benefits, Reserve and National Guard, Special Groups of Veterans, Transition Assistance, Dependents and Survivors Health Care, Dependents and Survivors Benefits, Appeals of VA Claims Decisions, Military Medals and Records, and Other Federal Benefits.

FEMA absorbed the Federal Insurance Administration, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, the National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program, the Federal Preparedness Agency of the General Services Administration and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD.

Those responsibilities include dam safety under the National Dam Safety Program Act ; disaster assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ; earthquake hazards reduction under the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 and further expanded by Executive Order 12699, regarding safety requirements for federal buildings and Executive Order 12941, concerning the need for cost estimates to seismically retrofit federal buildings ; emergency food and shelter under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 ; hazardous materials, under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 ;

FEMA's emergency response is based on small, decentralized teams trained in such areas as the National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS ), Urban Search and Rescue ( USAR ), Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team ( DMORT ), Disaster Medical Assistance Team ( DMAT ), and Mobile Emergency Resource Support ( MERS ).

There are also National Nursing Response Teams ( NNRT ), National Pharmacy Response Teams ( NPRT ) and Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams ( VMAT ).

After the creation of the Mouvement National Républicain ( MNR ) by Bruno Mégret, an offshoot from the FN, the DPS itself also split into two organizations, the DPS on one side and the DPA ( Département Protection Assistance ) on the other side.

The Poor Law system was not formally abolished until the National Assistance Act 1948, with parts of the law remaining on the statute book until 1967.

The Unemployment Assistance Board was set up in 1934 to deal with those not covered by the earlier 1911 National Insurance Act passed by the Liberals, and by 1937 the able-bodied poor had been absorbed into this scheme.

In 1948 the Poor Law system was finally abolished with the introduction of the modern welfare state and the passing of the National Assistance Act.

The year 1961 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the unification of our Armed Forces under the National Security Act of 1947.

Similar restrictions on the strength of the Army National Guard contained in the 1960 Department of Defense Appropriation Act should likewise be dropped.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.

The acceptance of collective bargaining as a national policy in 1934, implicit in the writing of Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act, has made it impolitic to oppose collective bargaining in principle.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.

This Act established a 18-year assessment and research program under the direction of the National Acidic Precipitation Assessment Program ( NAPAP ).

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

In 1911 he took up a government job as an " official explainer ", touring the country to explain David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act.

Among the most important pieces of legislation was the National Insurance Act 1946, in which people in work paid a flat rate of national insurance.

* National Health Service Act 1946

* National Insurance Act 1946

* National Insurance ( Industrial Injuries ) Act 1946

* National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

Firearms with shoulder stocks and barrels less than 406 mm ( 16 in ) in length are classified as " short barreled rifles " ( under the US National Firearms Act or NFA ), and are sometimes restricted in the same way that short barrel shotguns and machine guns are.

A list of firearms not covered by the NFA due to their antique status may be found here or due to their Curio and Relic status may be found here ; these lists includes a number of carbines with barrels less than the minimum legal length and firearms that are " primarily collector's items and are not likely to be used as weapons and, therefore, are excluded from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.

These are a popular compromise for ( American ) shooters who would like to own a submachine gun but cannot due to local restrictions or the prohibitive cost of buying a civilian legal submachine gun ( full automatics or semi-automatics with barrels shorter than are restricted under Title II of the National Firearms Act ).

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

Congress included text in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 ( passed in 1993 ) requiring the military to abide by regulations essentially identical to the 1982 absolute ban policy.