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Federal Government

the national government of a federated state, such as that of Australia located in Canberra
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It would increase efficiency for the provincial and federal governments as well as corporate taxpayers by eliminating red tape.
Otero says it's pure protocol, since the federal government, through a tax revenue-sharing agreement, is the provinces only current source of financing.
Bill Clinton, during his effort to shrink the federal government, threatened to abolish it altogether.
"It's the first time the federal government has recognized a gay or lesbian partner to this level," said David Smith, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based gay rights group Human Rights Campaign.
But the loss of language and culture rank much more highly in the priorities of native leaders than in those of the federal government.
But if you're going to try to pull people back into more of a common purpose, the only entity with the resources and authority to do it is the federal government. So we put forward the idea of creating a kind of matching grant program on top of Pell, which would be available to students whose schools or states are devoting a lot of resources to low-income students.
In sum, the Republican plan, privately insured for drug coverage, cost more for seniors, covered less and cost less to the federal government. The Democratic proposal, administered by the federal government, cost less for seniors, covered more and cost more to the federal government.
Sexual assault is considered a major crime as defined by a 1994 law, so it comes under the jurisdiction of the federal government. The FBI generally investigates sexual assault cases, and the U.S.
The bill Lieberman introduced last year aims to usher in "next-generation government" with the development of the federal government's information management and technology policy and seeks to create greater usability and link information between agencies.
Thus the federal government is now accelerating the worst trend of the current accountability movement: that performance-based accountability has come to mean testing, and testing alone.
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