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 )

The Atoll was formally annexed by the US in the 19th century and is still administered by the US Department of the Interior.

* US Department of the Interior: Indian Affairs

The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries.

Ministries of the Interior correspond primarily to the Department of Homeland Security in the US cabinet and secondarily to the Department of Justice.

Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of " Meteor Crater " from the nearby post office named Meteor.

In the US this region, semi-arid and often completely arid, is known as the Columbia Plateau, while in British Columbia it is the Interior Plateau, also called the Fraser Plateau.

First included in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, most of the county was removed from the reservation for 26 years after a 1910 act of the US Congress which " authorized and directed the Secretary of Interior to sell and dispose of all that portion of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, lying and being in Bennett County and described as follows: "... except for such portions therof as have been or may be hereafter allotted to Indians or otherwise reserved, and except lands classified as timber lands: Provided ,..." The lands were allotted and Bennett County was opened for settlement.

The first known US map to list the town came in 1879, by the US Department of Interior, calling the town " Saurita ".

The first known US map to list the town came in 1879, by the US Department of Interior, calling the town " Saurita ".

* Press release -- US Department of Interior, April 4, 2007: " Interior Secretary Kempthorne Designates 12 National Historic Landmarks "

* April 5 – US Interior Secretary James G. Watt causes controversy when he effectively bans the Beach Boys from a return performance at the Fourth of July festivities in Washington, announcing that Wayne Newton would perform instead.

* Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — US Lunar orbiters ( 2011 )

In the USA, most campgrounds operated by the US Department of the Interior ( BLM, National Park Service, National Monuments, National Wildlife Areas, National Forests ) and most state and county campgrounds do not have full hookups for water, sewage or electricity.

Society membership reached over 4, 000 in 1940, and included US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

The island that was formed by this project between the old and new channels was transferred to the US Department of the Interior in 1957 for use as a wildlife refuge.

** Department of the Interior Office for Equal Opportunity ( US )

On October 30, 1986 the US Congress passed legislation creating Steamtown National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

The US has sought to encourage the progress of human rights to the country by addressing its concerns directly to the government, as well as holding seminars for better police conduct and judicial conferences with US judeges to improve the rule of law.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

In Britain, the government sought Jewish support for the war effort for a variety of reasons including an erroneous antisemitic perception of " Jewish power " over the Ottoman Empire's Young Turks movement, and a desire to secure American Jewish support for US intervention on Britain's behalf.

In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the US sought rapprochement with the Afghan government — a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable due to weakening Soviet leverage over the regime.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

The government sought international assistance to finance reconstruction after massive flooding and landslides in December 1999 caused an estimated US $ 15 billion to $ 20 billion in damage.

Although Castro initially sought aid from the US, he was rebuffed and later turned to the Soviet Union.

The US Army sought to overcome this problem by developing guided missiles with shaped charge warheads that were accurate beyond a few hundred yards.

He was one of the main targets of Operation Restore Hope, the UN and US joint humanitarian operation that sought to break the military siege.

They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.

" In 1993, Mobutu was denied a visa by the US State Department after he sought to visit Washington, DC

* 1960s ( developing ): The US unsuccessfully sought Australian permission to test Sarin and VX gas on 200 " mainly Australian " troops, probably in the Iron Range rainforest near Lockhart River, Queensland.

The threat of US military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities equally concerned Bahrain ’ s government and Shia-dominated opposition, with both expressing fears that it could undermine the delicate political accommodation the two sides have sought under King Hamad.

Feeding on the momentum of their victory, the twenty US WNT players, in partnership with John Hendricks of the Discovery Channel, sought out the investors, markets, and players necessary to form the eight-team league.

In 2000 Mollison's US based Permaculture Institute sought a service mark ( a form of trademark ) for the word permaculture when used in educational services such as conducting classes, seminars, or workshops.

The earliest Tamiya models, particularly the early off roaders, are now highly sought after by vintage R / C collectors and can fetch prices of up to US $ 3000 on internet auction sites if still in mint, unbuilt form.

US Indian agents sought to convince chiefs to suppress the ritual, and major leaders, such as Knife Chief, worked to change the practices objected to by the increasing number of American settlers on the Plains.

In the official summit meeting with US President Bill Clinton, the tone was relaxed as Jiang and Clinton sought common ground while largely ignoring areas of disagreement.

Smugglers used every technique, from backpacks to helicopter aerial drops to bring tons of the marijuana crop into the US, while a growing phalanx of local, state, provincial and federal law enforcement from both sides of the border sought ways to stem the tide.

Trauma sued for US $ 100 million for breach of contract, fraud, and extortion and sought to have its joint venture agreement ended, claiming that Interscope had reneged on its contract after the band had become more successful than expected.

A US National Research Council panel sought to clarify the situation by adopting the term " public works infrastructure ", referring to:

The US monophonic pressing-though only a fold down of the stereo mix to mono-is one of the rarest pop / rock LPs and has been sought after by collectors for years.