This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

Prior to Kennedy Center, it screened films in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

* Bacillus thuringiensis General Fact Sheet ( National Pesticide Information Center )

* Bacillus thuringiensis Technical Fact Sheet ( National Pesticide Information Center )

Map of the human X chromosome ( from the National Center for Biotechnology Information | NCBI website ).

** National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center ( NBACC ; Projected: 2008 )

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

A National Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated " during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall line of wind and water.

* National Energy Research Science Computer Center article on Santer ( starts page 38 )

The General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and the Saguaro Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University are examples of national community development in the United States.

* National Climatic Data Center

( Certified Elections / Registration Administrator ), the highest level of certification available for election administrators, conferred by the Election Center, the National Association of Election Administrators.

* Species Profile-Cane Toad ( Bufo marinus ), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library.

On October 15, the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center reviewed the U-2 photographs and identified objects that they interpreted as medium range ballistic missiles.

* The National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center Official Site

He was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Ames Research Center, where he worked through 1951.

In September 2005, as part of its campaign to demonstrate that the military allowed open homosexuals to serve when its manpower requirements were greatest, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military ( now the Palm Center ), a reported that army regulations allowed the active duty deployment of Army Reservists and National Guard troops who claim to be or who are accused of being gay.

" Dublin " refers to Dublin, Ohio, where the work originated during the 1995 invitational OCLC / NCSA Metadata Workshop, hosted in by Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ), a library consortium based there, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

* National Conflict Resolution Center ( NCRC )

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

This warm relationship came to an abrupt end in June of 1834 when the National Congress appropriated $3,000 for compiling and printing the laws of Arkansas Territory, and, taking note of the recent wave of corruption in the legislature, left it to the governor to award the contract.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.

and to Mrs. Rozella Switzer, regional director of The National Conference of Christians and Jews, who asked them to serve as a committee for the fund.

The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

National defense, like the continuing search for peace with freedom and justice for all, is `` everybody's business ''.

These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., is developing plans to utilize specially treated lumber for underground shelter construction.

In 1960 one-quarter of the 92.5 million recreation visits to the National Forests and Grasslands were for the primary purpose of hunting and fishing.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

Both of these systems are essential for the production, development, and use of the National Forests.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

The existence of road systems permits an intensity of management and use for all National Forest purposes that is not otherwise possible.

Approximately 40 percent of the value of the work on roads for access to timber which are planned for this period will be constructed by purchasers of National Forest timber, but paid for by the Government through adjustment of stumpage prices.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

For example, the energy crisis of the mid-1970s led to the creation of the National Center for Appropriate Technology ( NCAT ) in 1977 with an initial appropriation of $ 3 million from the U. S. Congress.

In 2005, there were 1, 144 community-supported agriculture organiza-tions ( CSAs ) in operation, up from 400 in 2001 and 2 in 1986, according to a study by the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization National Center for Appropriate Technology.

In the United States, most preschool advocates support the National Association for the Education of Young Children's Developmentally Appropriate Practices.

* 1800 Letter on the Propriety of an Appropriate National Name.