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

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

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

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.

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.

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 )

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.

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 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.

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.

* 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

This means that the country has an IASA Category 1 rating and that Croatian air carriers are authorized to establish direct flights from Croatia to the US.

From 1902 until its abrogation in 1934, the Platt Amendment authorized the US to use military force to preserve Cuba's independence.

The same month, US President Bill Clinton authorized air strikes on government targets and military facilities.

Following Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release.

The US was not one of the initial signatories of the 1856 Declaration of Paris which outlawed privateering, and the Confederate Constitution authorized use of privateers.

Stars and Stripes is authorized by Congress and the US Department of Defense to produce independent daily military news and information distributed at U. S. military installations in Europe and Mideast and East Asia.

By giving the President the authority to negotiate these deals, the Congress effectively ceded a part of their power ( authorized under US Constitution, Article I, Section VIII ) to the executive branch.

The US Congress authorized funds to expand the army by 2500 men.

In 1998, however, the US Congress authorized $ 97 million in U. S. military aid for Iraqi opposition via the Iraq Liberation Act, intended primarily for INC. ( Katzman, 1998 ).

A major difference between US GAAP and IFRS is the fact that three fundamentally different concepts of capital and capital maintenance are authorized in IFRS while US GAAP only authorize two capital and capital maintenance concepts during low inflation and deflation: ( 1 ) physical capital maintenance and ( 2 ) financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units ( traditional Historical Cost Accounting ) as stated in Par 45 to 48 in the FASB Conceptual Satement Nº 5.

US GAAP does not recognize the third concept of capital and capital maintenance during low inflation and deflation, namely, financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power as authorized in IFRS in the Framework, Par 104 ( a ) in 1989.

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 program was then authorized by JCS Chairman John Vessey, and sanctioned by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ( SSCI ), with the sponsorship of Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ) and Senator Goldwater ( R-AZ ).

The board was authorized to sell up to US $ 10 million in stock via US $ 10 shares.

The Commander's Degree of the Legion of Merit is a neck order of the US, but it is only authorized for issue to foreign dignitaries. The present Medal of Honor neck ribbon was adopted in 1944.

The Glass – Steagall Act of 1932 authorized Federal Reserve Banks to ( 1 ) lend to five or more Federal Reserve System member banks on a group basis or to any individual member bank with capital stock of $ 5 million or less against any satisfactory collateral, not only “ eligible paper ,” and ( 2 ) issue Federal Reserve Bank Notes ( i. e., paper currency ) backed by US government securities when a shortage of “ eligible paper ” held by Federal Reserve banks would have required such currency to be backed by gold.

On November 28, 1942, this club was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in US history, killing 492 people ( which in itself was 32 more than the building's authorized capacity ) and injuring hundreds more.

In fact in 2005, the US Ambassador at the UN complained that the incumbent, as a ' civil servant ', was not authorized to act upon information ( in this case world wide press reports on abnormal detention forms in the ' war against terrorism ' suspected to breech the rights of the suspects ) not obtained by the organisation's official channels.

An investigation by the US House Committee on International Relations found that BNP Paribas made payments without proof that goods were delivered and sanctioned payments to third parties not identified as authorized recipients.

Previously under the Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1994, United States Attorney General Janet Reno had Donald C. Smaltz appointed Independent Counsel by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ( Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels Ethics in Government Act of 1978, As Amended, Division 94-2 ) on September 9, 1994, to " investigate to the maximum extent authorized by law " whether the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy " committed a violation of any federal criminal law.

Alaska Airlines provided International service to Vancouver in 2002 however shortly after launch a stop in Seattle ( or change of planes ) was required as John Wayne airport was not authorized for pre clearance or International flights by US Agencies.

In response to the attacks on 11 September 2001, the United States Congress passed the joint resolution Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists on 14 September 2001, which authorized the US President to fight the War on Terror.