Word: outdatedness
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10 | Washington RIP, F-22? In a 58-40 split, the U.S. Senate voted July 21 to scrap orders for seven F-22 fighter jets from a $679.8 billion military-spending bill, ending a standoff between lawmakers who defended the $1.75 billion project (which does not include R&D costs...
The bulk of Obama's proposal, $9 billion, would go to helping schools try out promising programs to improve student learning, track progress and train workers. Another goal: nosing completion rates up from their current, abominable level: just 31% of community college students who seek a degree actually get one...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn't really know what's in store for America's already overburdened homeless shelters. In its assessment to lawmakers, the agency known as HUD included this caveat: Our info is pretty outdated. "The data collection period ended on Sept. 30, 2008, just...
1 | Washington Voting Rights Act Stays Alive In a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling, the 1965 Voting Rights Act survived a legal challenge that many analysts expected to topple the landmark civil rights law. The court's 8-to-1 decision sidestepped the core constitutional issues in question, keeping intact...
Indeed, doctors have so far managed to avoid such reform in their own practices, and lawmakers may be running full speed into a minefield with any efforts to change their behavior. Physicians will accuse politicians of getting in the way of the doctor-patient relationship; devicemakers will say a "bundled...