One highly popular and respected General Agency program is the “ Week of Compassion ,” named for the special offering to fund the program when it began in the 1950s.

With encouragement from the United States Agency for International Development ( AID ), the Honduran government began to decentralize Cohdefor beginning in 1985.

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Hada, Mihdhar's father-in-law.

Japan's Tokyo Meteorological Observatory, the forerunner of the Japan Meteorological Agency, began constructing surface weather maps in 1883.

In 2004 Nigeria ’ s Federal Roads Maintenance Agency ( FERMA ) began to patch the 32, 000-kilometre federal roads network, and in 2005 FERMA initiated a more substantial rehabilitation.

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Mihdhar's father-in-law Ahmad Muhammad Ali al-Hada, who was facilitating al-Qaeda communications, in 1999.

The Central Intelligence Agency began using SEALs in covert operations in early 1963.

A precursor of the MKUltra program began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip.

Starting in 2004, the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) began to hold sport utility vehicles to the same tailpipe emissions standards as cars.

The Naskapis had received " relief " from the Federal Government as early as the end of the 19th century, but their first regular contacts with the Federal Government began only in 1949, when Colonel H. M. Jones, Superintendent of Welfare Services in Ottawa, and M. Larivière of the Abitibi Indian Agency visited them in Fort Chimo and arranged for the issuing of welfare to them.

The JCS published DoD Directive 5105. 21, " Defense Intelligence Agency " on 1 August, and DIA began operations with a handful of employees in borrowed office space on 1 October 1961.

By the time Operation Desert Storm began, some 2, 000 Agency personnel were involved in the intelligence support effort.

Within hours of the accident the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) began daily sampling of the environment at the three stations closest to the plant.

Starting in 1982, the United States Environmental Protection Agency began a clean-up of contaminated containers, buildings, and soils at the site and by the late 1990s had replaced the soils.

" Sam ," as he was known before he began writing, left school when he was 13 years old and held several jobs before working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Public awareness of the availability of these videos began in early 1982, when Vipco ( Video Instant Picture Company ), the UK distributors of The Driller Killer, a 1979 slasher film, took out full-page advertisements in a number of specialist video magazines, depicting the video's explicit cover ; an action which resulted in a large number of complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency.

The US government urged UNSCOM executive chairman Richard Butler to withdraw, and " few hours before the attack began, 125 UN personnel were hurriedly evacuated from Baghdad to Bahrain, including inspectors from the UN Special Commission on Iraq and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Re-construction of the first of the infilled section began on 26 February 2009, after a grant from the East Midlands Development Agency was secured.

However the Reuters News Agency, the world's largest information provider, began as a pigeon service carrying closing stock prices between Belgium and Germany, basically between the Western and Eastern terminus of the telegraph in Europe.

* Field Information Agency ; Technical ( FIAT ): US Army agency for securing the " major, and perhaps only, material reward of victory, namely, the advancement of science and the improvement of production and standards of living in the United Nations, by proper exploitation of German methods in these fields "; FIAT ended in 1947, when Operation Paperclip began functioning.

In 2007, the publication of previously secret Central Intelligence Agency documents revealed that Carmichael had been tracked by the CIA as part of their surveillance of black activists abroad, which began in 1968 and continued for years.

Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, where he began working for the Caribbean News Agency as the senior reporter and editor ( 1975 – 1977 ), and the Barbados Advocate News as the reporter and columnist ( 1977 – 1979 ), he emigrated to Canada in 1979.

In 1956 he began shooting fashion photography, and in 1958 he joined the Magnum Agency.

Geffen began his entertainment career in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency ( WMA ), where he quickly became an agent.

The site is publicly accessible. Alos known as Although one of the largest kofun monuments in Japan, archaeological investigations in 1962 – 1963 indicate that it was constructed in the early 5th century, and that portions of it were destroyed during the construction of Heijo-kyō, calling into question the designation by the Imperial Household Agency.

One such application, ccsNet, was tested in a case study funded by the Federal Transportation Administration ( FTA ) in which the efficacy of configuration management was measured through comparing the approximately 80 % complete construction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency ( LACMTA ) 1st and 2nd segments of the Red Line, a $ 5. 3 billion rail construction project.

The Agency was absorbed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in 2001. and the of the Ministry still have a strong influence on public construction projects in Hokkaido.

He was aware of Federal funds available through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency ( IEPA ) to assist municipalities in the construction of local sewers.

Currently, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is regulating construction along the shoreline.

A collaboration between the Welland Rivers Trust, the Wild Trout Trust and the Environment Agency has resulted in the construction of a rock ramp, to allow migrating sea trout to pass up the river beyond the weir on the Maxey Cut, which was acting as a barrier.

The exposure levels to free crystalline silica in the ash are commonly used to characterise the risk of silicosis in occupational studies ( for people who work in mining, construction and other industries ,) because it is classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

It also involved the movement of the local Highways Agency and Fire Service offices, and the construction of a long footbridge network, a new bus-lane and a new gyratory.

It has also had involvement in a number of other high profile construction engineering projects: numerous power projects such as refineries and nuclear power plants ; transportation projects including the Channel Tunnel, the BART system, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam ( the largest Airport in the world by land area ), Hong Kong International Airport and the Big Dig ; and other projects such as the Kingdom Centre and Tower in Saudi Arabia, Jubail Industrial City, the rebuilding of the civil infrastructure of Iraq funded by the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), and the hauling and installing of more than 35, 000 trailers and mobile homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi.

Since 2010, the maintenance and the construction of the railway network are the responsibility of the Finnish Transport Agency ().

Serious flooding in 1990 led to the construction of the first screen, and it was refurbished in 2010, so that it could be continuously monitored by the Environment Agency.

On 1 January 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in a voluntary agreement with industry began restricting the use of CCA in treated timber in residential and commercial construction, with the exception of shakes and shingles, permanent wood foundations, and certain commercial applications.

The Environment Agency is organising the Fens Waterways Link a major construction project to link rivers in the Fens and Anglian Systems for navigation.

Sall and Wade came into conflict later in 2007 when Sall called Wade's son Karim, the President of the National Agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ), for a hearing in the National Assembly regarding construction sites in Dakar for the OIC Summit planned to take place there in March 2008.

The California Environmental Protection Agency gave Penske permission to begin construction after Kaiser agreed to pay $ 6 million to remove hazardous waste from the site.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " the lake is affected by nonpoint source pollution from agriculture ( pesticide and fertilizer use, manure production, and sedimentation resulting from poor tillage practices ), residential land use ( septic systems, lawncare, and construction ), and streambank erosion.

In September 2009, Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) was finalizing the feasibility study of the line, the construction began in 2011.

The construction cost of over $ 450 million was partially funded by the Center City Development Corporation and the San Diego Redevelopment Agency.

Further financial endowments from the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and the Mutual Security Agency ( MSA ) allowed the construction of new facilities, while scholarship grants, mainly from the Rockefeller Foundation and the International Cooperation Administration, helped fund training of UPCA faculty.

Dover worked in the construction industry across Europe, working for John Laing plc, George Wimpey, and as Chief Executive for the National Building Agency.

The Salinas Valley Water Project, now under construction by the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, will use an inflatable dam near Salinas to capture more water during wet periods.

* Following discovery of tendon corrosion in several bridges in England, the Highways Agency issued a moratorium on the construction of new internal grouted post-tensioned bridges and embarked on a 5-year programme of inspections on its existing post-tensioned bridge stock.