The medical department of the United States Army in the world war .../

Editor-in-chief: Col. Charles Lynch.

Management of the Department of Defense : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session.

Hearings held March 23, 1983-December 5, 1984.

Defense Department's CHAMPUS program : hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session ...

Hearing held June 9, 1976, pursuant to section 5, Senate resolution 363, 94th Congress.

Nomination of Hon. Thomas "Tom" J. Ridge : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session on the nomination of Hon. Thomas "Tom" J. Ridge to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, January 17, 2003.

Shipping list no.: 2003-0242-P.

Nomination of Hon. Gordon R. England : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session on the nomination of Hon. Gordon R. England to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, January 24, 2003.

Shipping list no.: 2003-0242-P.

Register, Department of Justice and the courts of the United States.

Description based on: 43rd ed. (1957).

Register, Department of Justice and the courts of the United States.

Description based on: 43rd ed. (1957).

The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II.

Editor-in-chief: 1952- C.H. Goddard; 1955-65, J.B. Coates; 1965-66, A.L. Ahnfeldt; 1966-69, R.S. Anderson; 1970- W.S. Mullins.

Decisions of the Interior Department in public land cases and land laws passed by the Congress of the United States [electronic resource] : together with the regulations of the General Land Office /

Vol. 2 has title: Land laws : regulations and decisions, being a continuation of acts of Congress respecting the sale and disposition of public lands and embracing land laws passed ... from December , 1859, to January 1, 1870

Department of Energy's facilities for defense materials production : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, first session, on the public health and safety and environmental aspects of operation ... July 17, 1987.

Pt. 2 has subtitle: Hearings before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, first session, on the status of the Department of Energy's effects to address issues concerning the defense materials production reactors ... October 27 and 29, 1987.

Department of Energy National Laboratory Cooperative Research Initiatives Act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, first session on S. 1480 ... September 15 and 17, 1987.

Shipping list no.: 88-374-P (pt. 1).

Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal years 1990 and 1991 : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on S. 1085 ...

Item 1034-A, 1034-B (MF).

Grazing : hearings before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on the Department of the Interior's proposed rule to amend the Department's regulations concerning livestock grazing.

Shipping list number: 94-0291-P (pt. 1), 95-0084-P (volume 2).

The law of the sea: the United States, Canada and the deep seabed

The Falkland Islands War of 1982 was fought over competing claims to sovereignty over a group of islands off the east coast of South America. The dispute was between Argentina and the United Kingdom. Argentina claims the islands under rights to Spanish succession, the fact that they lie off the Argentine coast line and that in 1833 Great Britain took the islands illegally and by force. The United Kingdom claims the islands primarily through prescription--the fact that they have governed the islands in a peaceful, continuous and public manner since 1833. The British also hold that the population living on the islands, roughly eighteen hundred British descendants, should be able to decide their own future. The United Kingdom also lays claim to the islands through rights of discovery and settlement, although this claim has always been challenged by Spain who until 1811 governed the islands. Both claims have legal support, and the final decision if there will ever be one is difficult to predict. Sadly today the ultimate test of sovereignty does not come through international law but remains in the idea that "He is sovereign who can defend his sovereignty." The years preceding the Argentine invasion of 1982 witnessed many diplomatic exchanges between The United Kingdom and Argentina over the future of the islands. During this time the British sent signals to Argentina that ii implied a decline in British resolve to hold the islands and demonstrated that military action did more to further the talks along than did actual negotiations. The Argentine military junta read these signals and decided that they could take the islands in a quick military invasion and that the United Kingdom would consider the act as a fait accompli and would not protest the invasion. The British in response to this claimed that they never signaled to Argentina that a military solution was acceptable to them and launched a Royal Navy task force to liberate the islands. Both governments responded to an international crisis with means that were designed both to resolve the international crisis and increase the domestic popularity of the government. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was facing an all-time low in popularity for post-War Prime Ministers while Argentine President General Galtieri needed to gain mass popular support so he could remain a viable President after he was scheduled to lose command of the army and a seat on the military junta that ran the country. The military war for the Falklands is indicative of the nature of modern warfare between Third World countries. It shows that the gap in military capabilities between Third and First World countries is narrowing significantly. Modern warfare between a First and Third World country is no longer a 'walk over' for the First World country.

The medical malpractice insurance "crises" and federal medical malpractice tort reform: Collection and analysis of bills passed by the United States House of Representatives from 1995--2005

There have been three medical malpractice insurance "crises" in the United States over a time spanning roughly the past three decades (Poisson, 2004, p. 759-760). Each crisis is characterized by a number of common features, including rapidly increasing medical malpractice insurance premiums, cancellation of existing insurance policies, and a decreased willingness of insurers to offer or renew medical malpractice insurance policies (Poisson, 2004, p. 759-760). Given the recurrent "crises," many sources argue that medical malpractice insurance coverage has become too expensive a commodity—one that many physicians simply cannot afford (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2002, p. 1-2; Physician Insurers Association of America [PIAA], 2003, p. 1; Jackiw, 2004, p. 506; Glassman, 2004, p. 417; Padget, 2003, p. 216). ^ The prohibitively high cost of medical liability insurance is said to limit the geographical areas and medical specializations in which physicians are willing to practice. As a result, the high costs of medical liability insurance are ultimately said to affect whether or not people have access to health care services. ^ In an effort to control the medical liability insurance crises—and to preserve or restore peoples' access to health care—every state in the United States has passed "at least some laws designed to reduce medical malpractice premium rates" (GAO, 2003, p.5-6). More recently, however, the United States has witnessed a push to implement federal reform of the medical malpractice tort system. Accordingly, this project focuses on federal medical malpractice tort reform. This project was designed to investigate the following specific question: Do the federal medical malpractice tort reform bills which passed in the House of Representatives between 1995 and 2005 differ in respect to their principle features? To answer this question, the text of the bills, law review articles, and reports from government and private agencies were analyzed. Further, a matrix was compiled to concisely summarize the principle features of the proposed federal medical malpractice tort reform bills. Insight gleaned from this investigation and matrix compilation informs discussion about the potential ramifications of enacting federal medical malpractice tort reform legislation. ^