The US Library of Congress Federal Research Division reported it in 2006 as having generally good freedom of speech and human rights records, while Freedom House listed it as " free " in 2011, giving it scores of 2 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties.

* Halbert, N, and Derr, J ( 1995 ) A Comprehensive Evaluation of Cattle Introgression into US Federal Bison Herds, Journal of Heredity, Oxford Journals, Vol 98, Issue 1.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

The US Federal Reserve remits all its profits to the U. S. Treasury.

In September 2011 the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a US $ 2. 4M fine against the company for its failure to follow quality assurance requirements while producing fiberglass components at its plant in Chihuahua, Mexico.

* Frequency: in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Latin America and in the US and Canada, and products may NOT be used in the UK or Ireland as they cause and suffer from interference with the UK and Ireland cellular networks with illegal use of such products being prohibited by UK agencies, and UK and Ireland DECT and products may NOT be used in the US and Canada as they cause and suffer from interference with US and Canada cellular networks and aircraft and for that reason is deemed illegal to use by US and Canadian agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission and Industry Canada.

* Top 100 US Federal Contractors

* 2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.

* FTC Fair Information Practice, FIPs, US Federal Trade Commission guidelines

* Stratospheric ozone, myths and realities: Testimony of S. Fred Singer, Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies and Mandates: Case Study 1 — Stratospheric Ozone: Myths and Realities, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, US House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Sess., September 20, 1995 31 ( Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1996 ).

The United States Food and Drug Administration lists these items as " Generally recognized as safe " or GRAS ; they are listed under both their Chemical Abstract Services number and Fukda regulation under the US Code of Federal Regulations.

The industry change to steel shot, arising from the US and Canadian Federal bans on using lead shotshells while hunting migratory wildfowl has also had an impact on reloading shotshells, as the shot bar and powder bushing required on a dedicated shotshell press also must be changed for each hull type reloaded, and are different than what would be used for reloading shotshells with lead shot, further complicating the reloading of shotshells.

There are also overlapping and somewhat contradictory rules established by the US Federal Government, so some food grown with hydroponics can be certified organic.

( As it happens, no financial assistance was provided to LTCM by the US Federal Reserve, so there was no direct cost to US taxpayers, but a large bailout had to be mounted by a number of financial institutions.

802. 11b and 802. 11g use the 2. 4 GHz ISM band, operating in the United States under Part 15 of the US Federal Communications Commission Rules and Regulations.

According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed US $ 42, 000 to Democratic candidates and committees.

Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money ( e. g. US $ 7. 25 per hour under U. S. Federal law ( or 2. 13 for employees who receive tips, known as the tipped minimum wage ), $ 9. 04 in the U. S. state of Washington, and £ 6. 08 ( for those aged 21 +) in the United Kingdom ), but also in terms of which pay period ( e. g. Russia and China set monthly minimums ) or the scope of coverage.

ADM ultimately settled Federal charges for more than US $ 100 million and paid hundreds of millions of dollars more to plaintiffs and customers ( US $ 400 million alone on a high-fructose corn syrup class action case ).< ref name =" KaplanFox ">

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

AMI Communications also received ( without a formal selection procedure ) a government contract to persuade Czechs to support US radar base.

In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, banning indecency on the Internet.

In March 1971, US Naval construction battalions ( Seabees ) arrived on Diego Garcia to begin the construction of the Communications Station and an airfield.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

The film was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Tokuma Japan Communications ' US subsidiary in 1993 with the title My Friend Totoro.

* 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $ 37 billion merger ( the largest merger in US history at the time ).

Netscape Communications ( formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape ) is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser.

* 1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications ( now AT & T ) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.

The project includes US Verizon Communications, Chinese firms China Telecom, China Netcom and China Unicom, South Korea's Korea Telecom and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom.

The US government Committee on Innovations in Computing and Communications credits the acceptance of the viability of the RISC concept to the success of the SPARC system.

Thailand-based Shinawatra Computer and Communications Co. Ltd. ( now Shin Corporation ) signed a US $ 100 million contract with Hughes Space and Communications Company Ltd. in 1991 to launch Thailand's first satellite communications project.

** Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom ( the largest merger in U. S. history ).

Baran developed the concept of message block switching during his research at the RAND Corporation for the US Air Force into survivable communications networks, first presented to the Air Force in the summer of 1961 as briefing B-265 then published as RAND Paper P-2626 in 1962 and then including and expanding somewhat within a series of eleven papers titled On Distributed Communications in 1964.

In 2004, Idle recorded a protest song of sorts, the " FCC Song ", in which he lambastes the US Federal Communications Commission for fining him $ 5, 000 for saying the word " fuck " on national radio.

* Planning Emergency Medical Communications: Volume 2, Local / Regional Level Planning Guide, ( Washington, D. C .: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, US Department of Transportation, 1995 ).

* Communications Decency Act, a US law found partially unconstitutional

By 28 August the Communications Zone could no longer guarantee fuel deliveries and both the US First and Third Armies reported less than a day's supply on hand.

On November 4, 1997, WorldCom and MCI Communications announced their US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, making it the largest merger in US history.

In the US, these fall under Part 15 of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulations.

Disney later invested US $ 11 million on two transponders of Galaxy 1, a Hughes Communications satellite, and spent US $ 20 million on programming.

More recently, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, `` admitted '' to a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the US might fall behind Russia ( he apparently meant in weapons development ) if the Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

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 ).

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

* 1978 — John A. McCone ( Former Director of CIA and Former Chair of US Atomic Energy Commission )

Because of these regulatory restrictions on ownership, hedge funds have been exempted from mandatory registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which is generally intended to regulate investment funds sold to retail investors.

* Interstate Commerce Commission, a now defunct US Government regulatory body

The US Atomic Energy Commission and NASA tested a few designs from 1959 to 1968.

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a former US State Department official who had been a member of the American Commission at Paris, testified that the United Kingdom and France had simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves.

The Nicaraguan Canal Commission carried out the most thorough hydrological survey yet of the San Juan river and its watershed, and in 1899 concluded that an interocean project was feasible at a total cost of US $ 138m.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

* Piston Engines US Centennial of Flight Commission

In 1962-70 negotiations took place between the Cambridge Electron Accelerator Laboratory ( shared by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the US Atomic Energy Commission over the proposed 1970 construction of the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring ( SPEAR ).

The US Federal Trade Commission has sued Internet marketing organizations under the " unfairness doctrine " to make them stop infecting consumers ’ PCs with spyware.