American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

In February 2009, the US State Department issued a travel alert directed at college students planning spring break trips to Acapulco.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

The newest upgrade is a joint venture by the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense: the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile ( AARGM ), produced by Alliant Techsystems.

In November 2005, the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the joint development of the AGM-88E AARGM missile.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

* US Board on Geographic Names ( Department of the Interior )

* US Transportation Command ( Department of Defense )

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

* California Department of Corrections, the US state of California's prison system

The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).

Active development of the model by the US Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute ( SEI ) began in 1986 when Humphrey joined the Software Engineering Institute located at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after retiring from IBM.

In 2000 they were the defendants in a US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit.

Following World War II, the US Navy Department adopted the dog tags used by the US Army and Air Force, so a single shape and size became the American standard.

In 1958 African-American Eugene Wright joined for the group's US State Department tour of Europe and Asia.

Featuring the album art of S. Neil Fujita, the album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time: 9 / 8, 5 / 4, 3 / 4, and 6 / 4 were used inspired by Eurasian folk music they experienced during that US State Department sponsored tour.

In the early 1960s, Brubeck and his wife Iola developed a jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors, based in part on experiences they and their colleagues had during foreign tours on behalf of the US State Department.

* Defense Mapping Agency, a former ( 1972 – 1996 ) agency of the US Department of Defense.

* Defense Media Activity, an organization of the US Department of Defense

Micro was used to manage very large data sets by the US Department of Labor, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and researchers from the University of Alberta, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

* Department of State, Academics see the military in decline, but retaining strong influence, 23 September 2009 ( US Embassy Cables, The Guardian, 2011 )

Al Gore and Newt Gingrich applaud as US president Clinton waves during the State of the Union address in 1997.

In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

Abroad, a new trend of aggressive American influence emerged, evident in Secretary of State James G. Blaine's expressed belief that all of Central and South America would some day fall to the US.

Midway through his college studies at Oregon State University ( then called Oregon State College ), near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Navy, serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines.

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

The US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Still, the US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Physician-assisted suicide is thus not classified as euthanasia by the US State of Oregon, where it is legal under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, and despite its name, it is not legally classified as suicide either.

In 2012 it was announced that the US State Department would start flame trolling Jihads as part of Operation Viral Peace

* Background Note: Guatemala-Information from the US State Department

After a visit to England, the couple returned to the US, where they settled in Mott Haven, Morrisania in New York State.

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

In an effort to limit German influence, in 1910-11, the US State Department backed a consortium of American investors, assembled by the National City Bank of New York, in acquiring control of the Banque Nationale d ' Haïti, the nation's only commercial bank and the government treasury.

In 1917, at the demand of US officials, the National Assembly was dissolved, and officials were designated to write a new constitution, which was largely dictated by officials in the US State Department and US Navy Department.

The US State Department authorized this plebiscite presuming that " The people casting ballots would be 97 % illiterate, ignorant in most cases of what they were voting for.

* NASA, Vanguard — A History, " Chapter 1 Background of Space Exploration " mentions S. Fred Singer's role in early US space exploration.

* Background Note: Mauritania-History from the US State Department.

Against a Dark Background, Iain M. Banks, London: Orbit, 1993, ISBN 1-85723-179-1 ( UK ) ISBN 0-553-29225-0 ( US )

* Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications, US Congressional Research Service

* AIM's " Background on US Government War Against AIM "

* Uncommon Danger ( 1937 ), US title: Background to Danger

* US Department of State, Background notes on Singapore, Retrieved 23 Oct 2006.

* KU Schmolke, " Institutional Investors ' Mandatory Voting Disclosure: The Proposal of the European Commission against the Background of the US Experience " ( 2006 ) EBOLR 767