The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

In recent years, the 1867 document has mainly served as the basis on which the division of powers between the provinces and federal government have been analyzed.

Most actions by the federal government can find some legal support among the express powers, such as the Commerce Clause, whose applicability has been narrowed by the Supreme Court in recent years.

In recent years, some have called for a dual state and federal regulatory system ( commonly referred to as the Optional federal charter ( OFC )) for insurance similar to the banking industry.

The most recent federal presidential elections were held on July 2, 2006 concurrent with the full renovation of both chambers of the Congress of the Union.

In recent years, in addition to federal, state, and local forces, some special districts have been formed to provide extra police protection in designated areas.

These specific election donations are known as ‘ hard money .’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ) of 2002, also known as " McCain-Feingold ", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1974, and prohibited unregulated contributions ( commonly referred to as " soft money ") to national political parties.

Another growing challenge is the recent trend of states and businesses in the United States purposely under-funding their pension schemes in order to push the costs onto the federal government.

Kwakwaka ' wakw centres of population on Vancouver Island include communities such as Fort Rupert, Alert Bay and Quatsino, The Kwakwaka ' wakw tradition of the potlatch was banned by the federal government of Canada in 1885, but has been revived in recent decades.

With the significant reduction in timber harvesting on federal lands and the implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan to protect the endangered Northern Spotted Owl, the timber economy has been greatly eroded in recent years.

By contrast, the only period in recent times during which the government of the day has had a majority in the Senate was from July 2005 ( following the 2004 election ) to December 2007 ( following the Coalition's defeat at the federal election that year ).

The federal government has managed to present balanced budgets in recent years, but public debt remains high, at 99 % of 2009 GDP.

Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards ( with the recent exception of the No Child Left Behind Act ).

* 25px25px Business U. S. Route 40 ( Brownsville )- recent designation for a two-lane section of the original path of US 40 that has been replaced by a realigned route ; highway runs in its entirety through Redstone Township and was kept as part of the federal highway system to prevent a decrease in traffic for area businesses

Weston has historically been a Republican leaning community ; however, it has trended strongly Democratic on the federal level in recent years.

Built in recent years through the efforts of Borough Council as well as state and federal support, the River Front has attracted to Sharpsburg a wide variety of individuals and groups looking to enjoy the outdoors.

Since the late 1980s, the federal United States Environmental Protection Agency and the state DEP have worked to clean up contamination in adjacent areas, but a final remedy for the site itself has remained on hold in recent years, as local officials and citizens fight with the government agencies and Gould over the best solution.

In recent years, Welch has attracted the construction of new state and federal prisons which are creating some sources of economic renewal.

In another recent case, the community organizing group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ( ACORN ) sued the U. S. government after the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution in early 2009 barring the group from receiving federal funding.

In March 2011, Judge John Sedwick from the Anchorage federal district court, in his ruling, reinstated the Roadless Rule on roadless areas in the Tongass, but with three of the Forest Service's recent timber projects excluded from that ruling " without prejudice.

However, a recent ruling by a federal appeals court successfully granted a " temporary halt " to the FCC's enforcement of its indecency rules.

At the time of his most recent findings, Horwitz was working for the Michigan Cancer Foundation with a federal grant from the National Institutes of Health ; he retired in 2005.

While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.

In August 2012, the first Pride Parade was held in Uganda to protest the government's recent treatment of its LGBT citizens and the recent attempts by the Ugandan Parliament to adopt harsher sodomy laws, colloquially named the Kill the Gays Bill which would include life imprisonment for aggravated homosexuality.

By early 1971, though, ABC was trying to cut costs in the face of harsh new economic realities including a national economic recession, a sharp dip in advertising revenue following the U. S. government's recent ban on cigarette commercials, and a record-high number of competing soap operas — which were more expensive to produce than game or talk shows — on the networks ' daytime schedules.

He accused Mangope of corruption and charged that the recent election had been rigged in the government's favor.

Besides the recent Irish Treaty and Edwin Montagu's moves towards greater self-government for India, both of which dismayed rank-and-file Conservative opinion, the government's willingness to intervene against the Bolshevik regime in Russia also seemed out of step with the new and more pacifist mood.

The U. S. government's most recent 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ( NSDUH ) reported that nationwide over 800, 000 adolescents ages 12 – 17 sold illegal drugs during the twelve months preceding the survey.

It should also be noted that according to a recent Choson Ilbo article, historians have discovered written government records of the Joseon government's reaction to Admiral Yi's death.

Alexander Grant MacKay criticized his failure to take advantage of the recent conference of premiers to press for the transfer of rights over Alberta's natural resources from the federal to the provincial government ( Sifton had made this a priority during the pre-war years, but had largely ceased his advocacy on the breakout of hostilities ), and James Gray Turgeon attacked the government's policy of levying taxes for the support of soldiers ' dependants on the grounds that he considered it a federal responsibility.

It was one of the United States's most important precision manufacturing and defense centers until its relatively recent deindustrialization, which was catalyzed by the government's controversial closure of the Springfield Armory during the Vietnam War.

However, the British government's ultimate responsibility for good governance of the territories has led it over recent years to pursue a policy of revoking all statutory provision for the death penalty in those territories where it had up until recently been legal.

In recent decades however, large budget deficits and the resulting increases in debt have led to heightened concern about the long-term sustainability of the federal government's fiscal policies.

In recent years official relations between Greece and Turkey have improved, mainly due to the Greek government's supportive attitude towards Turkey's efforts to join the EU, although various issues have never been fully resolved and remain constant sources of conflict.

However, local leaders hope to benefit from the government's recent major investment initiatives in the province.

" He also announced that earlier in the morning, Zackie Achmat and 44 others had been arrested for occupying provincial offices in Cape Town in protest of government's failure to treat prisoners with anti-retrovirals, and in particular the recent death of one plaintiff in the legal case against the government on this matter.

Due to the recent government's decision, Digital TV service for all free-to-air network will be scheduled before the year 2012, following at the end of analogue-based current broadcast.

The Chinese government's recent move away from the shifan system had brought significant changes to the university.

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS ), is the United States government's most recent manned launch vehicle.

According to the message of International Karma Kagyu Buddhist Organization published on www. karmapa-issue. org: " To underscore his willingness to be supportive, Shamar Rinpoche even provided the necessary help for Ugyen Trinlay Dorje to obtain Indian government's approval for his recent visit to the U. S., though at the same time maintaining the stance that Thrinlay Thaye Dorje is the traditional Karmapa.

In recent years, she has written for that publication on Dick Cheney, the bin Laden family, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the Koch family, the television series 24, and the US government's controversial policy of extraordinary rendition.

The United Nations had withdrawn 1, 700 peace keepers in recent months, responding to the Congolese government's demand to end the UN peacekeeping mission ( recently renamed MONUSCO ).

President William Howard Taft appointed Crane minister to China on July 16, 1909, but on the eve of his departure to his post on October 4, 1909, he was recalled to Washington and forced to resign under pressure by U. S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, who held him responsible for the publication in a Chicago newspaper of the U. S. government's objections to two recent treaties between Japan and China.

A recent report by Global Witness, an independent advocacy group that focuses on natural resource exploitation, said there was a " major gap " between the government's promises of transparency and its follow-through.

According to Newsweek, Party officials felt that the recent riots risked tarnishing China's global image, and underwent a public relations program involving quickly getting out the government's official version of the events, as well as transporting foreign journalists to riot affected areas.