CCGC functions as a conference facility for federal and international government-sponsored events and provides a variety of customized short term training programs for government agencies.

In the United States, government-sponsored enterprises ( GSEs ) i. e. The Federal National Mortgage Association ( FNMA ; OTCQB: FNMA ), commonly known as Fannie Mae is one such example.

Several government-sponsored reports by commissioned experts have pointed to public substance abuse treatment as opposed to criminalization as the only effective way to battle the public health crisis caused by drugs ; these recommendations have been mostly ignored by US government officials, and in some cases suppressed.

advance themes or characters who promote government-sponsored solutions ; vilify entrepreneurship ; degrade personal initiative, self-reliance and responsibility, or regurgitate discredited myths and misconceptions about liberty and free enterprise .”

In advance of the 1913 election, government-sponsored redistribution legislation increased the number of ridings from 41 to 56 and left them of unequal size ; only 103 votes were cast in Clearwater in its first election.

establishes a strike force of government-sponsored metahumans which includes Captain America ; scientist couple Henry and Janet Pym ( Giant-Man and the Wasp ); Bruce Banner ( the Hulk ) and Tony Stark ( Iron Man ).

It is also about that time that he began travelling abroad ; his generally favorable impressions during a U. S .- government-sponsored 1942 visit to the United States are recounted in his posthumously published Panorama de los Estados Unidos ; his impressions on this visit apparently contrasted sharply with his earlier and later anti-Americanism.

Several regulatory entities have been granted power by the Congress to place banking and financial institutions into receivership like the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for failing nationally chartered commercial banks ; the Office of Thrift Supervision for failing savings and loan associations ( thrift institutions ); and the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) for government-sponsored enterprises ( GSEs ) such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks.

The systematic use of state-terrorism and which emerged in 1966 under President Julio César Méndez persisted under Arana ; government-sponsored " death squads " remained active and the security forces regularly detained, disappeared, tortured and extrajudicially executed political opponents, student leaders, suspected guerrilla sympathizers and trade unionists.

It is believed that such government-sponsored Internet commentators have now become widespread and their numbers could be in the tens of thousands ; Bandurski suggests the number may be up to 280, 000 while The Guardian puts the estimate as 300, 000.

The 1950s stories were thus considered outside of official canon until Englehart's 1972 Captain America storyline (# 153-156 ; September-December 1972 ), which attempted to resolve the discrepancy by showing how a teenager ( Monroe is simply referred to as " Bucky " throughout, the name " Jack Monroe " was introduced in later stories ) and an unnamed man ( later known as " The Grand Director ") had assumed both the public and private identities of the original Captain America and Bucky as part of a government-sponsored program which planned to replace the lost heroes to combat the " red threat ".

The new name is taken from the government-sponsored group the three founders had previously served on.

* September 6 – Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.

Primary Education is free and compulsory in government-sponsored public schools.

The town's single government-sponsored cultural organization is the North Caddo Branch of the Shreve Memorial Library.

A government-sponsored initiative, te wiki o te reo Māori has been celebrated since 1975 and is intended to encourage New Zealanders to learn or at least support the Māori.

Tourism has also provided some additional funds for maintenance — as of 2000 approximately 28 % of ticket revenues across the whole Angkor site was spent on the temples — although most work is carried out by foreign government-sponsored teams rather than by the Cambodian authorities.

However, Riley also leads a double life: he is both teaching assistant at UC Sunnydale and a member of the Initiative, a government-sponsored special operations team which both researches and combats the demons which roam Sunnydale.

It is a government-sponsored enterprise ( GSE ), though it has been a publicly traded company since 1968.

It is now rare, except for government-sponsored organizations like The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts.

In most countries, it is most often used to describe members of the government party or parties who defect and vote with the opposition against some piece of government-sponsored legislation — although this usage is not widespread in Canada, where the term's usage is restricted to the second definition.

Unlike other government-sponsored research institutes which are responsible to relevant Executive Yuan ministries, Academia Sinica, as the nation's premier research institution, is directly responsible to the President of the Republic of China.

This is a result of the origins of the Internet as a U. S. federal government-sponsored research network ( see ARPANET and National Science Foundation Network ).

* A public university ( i. e., a tertiary education institution that is or public -/ government-sponsored or administered )

Key sometimes depicted government-sponsored social services for children as inefficient or even counterproductive in its efforts: In The Forgotten Door, social services is presented as a clearly undesirable alternative for the protagonist Little Jon, and in Escape to Witch Mountain, Tony and Tia actively flee the system.

The prison is also the birthplace of the Lifers ' Group, in which prison inmates participate in a government-sponsored hip hop music program, recording such songs as " The Real Deal " and " Belly of the Beast " to discourage children from becoming criminals.

Neil Agar, a security agent with the State Department, is dispatched to Peckham, California to investigate the death of John Grubowsky, a bacteriologist working at government-sponsored Brandt Research.

Māori Language Week, te wiki o te reo Māori, is a government-sponsored initiative intended to encourage New Zealanders to promote the use of Māori language.

The OMA is not a formal government-sponsored standards organization like the ITU, but a forum for industry stakeholders to agree on common specifications for products and services.

The policy of the United States towards the American Indians is another example of government-sponsored migration because of population density concerns and the availability of arable land.

The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( FHLMC ), known as Freddie Mac, is a public government-sponsored enterprise ( GSE ), headquartered in the Tyson's Corner CDP in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia.

Carnegie emphatically resisted government intrusion in commerce, as well as government-sponsored charities.

New Republic editor Michael Kinsley argued that critics should not simply dismiss State Department justifications for death squad attacks on " soft targets ": " The State Department has defended bloody contra attacks on government-sponsored farm cooperatives, saying that these civilian facilities have military aspects.

Whereas deforestation was primarily driven by subsistence activities and government-sponsored development projects like transmigration in countries like Indonesia and colonization in Latin America, India, Java, and so on, during late 19th century and the earlier half of the 20th century.

For example, government-sponsored killings for political reasons would be considered democide.

The government-sponsored Puerto Cortés Free Zone was opened in 1976.

A series of privately run export processing zones were also established in competition with the government-sponsored free zones.

His work laid the foundation for the Twenty-Four Histories which, unlike Sima's independent endeavor, were government-sponsored works usually commissioned by new dynastic houses after the conquest of the previous dynasty.

The report comprehensively reviewed the undergraduate curriculum, recommended offering a broader education, and warned against letting engineering and government-sponsored research detract from the sciences and humanities.

Post-war government-sponsored research at MIT included SAGE and guidance systems for ballistic missiles and Project Apollo.

The armed forces of a country are its government-sponsored defense, fighting forces, and organizations.

Initially rejected from the most important commercial show of the time, the government-sponsored Paris Salon, the Impressionists organized yearly group exhibitions in commercial venues during the 1870s and 1880s, timing them to coincide with the official Salon.

* 2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma.

One such filmmaker, Frank Capra, created a seven-part U. S. government-sponsored series of films to support the war effort entitled Why We Fight ( 1942-5 ).

* 1955 – Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.

Thailand's highly successful government-sponsored family planning program has resulted in a dramatic decline in population growth from 3. 1 % in 1960 to around 0. 4 % today.

The theremin was originally the product of Russian government-sponsored research into proximity sensors.

In 1991, the founding members were incorporated back into the regular X-Men series, and X-Factor relaunched as a U. S. government-sponsored team incorporating many secondary characters from the X-Men mythos.

* Valerie Cooper-A U. S. government agent with history as both ally and adversary of the X-Men who became X-Factor's government liaison, carrying over from her duties as liaison to a prior government-sponsored team of mutants, Freedom Force.