• Air force personnel control civilian air traffic, and a general oversees the main intelligence agency.

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  • Inspectors general are watchdogs within a federal agency and are supposed to operate independently.

    NPR: AP Exclusive: Possible USAID Bid Rigging Probed

  • They are part of a general belt-tightening at the agency.

    ECONOMIST: Alzheimer's disease

  • In the past two weeks, Mr. Rosen and the city's housing authority have opened negotiations with Texas' General Land Office, a state agency that is working on behalf of HUD and housing advocates to seek a compromise.

    WSJ: A Texas-Size Housing Fight

  • Labour MSP Graeme Pearson, a former director general of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, asked Mr McConnell if a 01:00 television curfew in operation at Low Moss Prison in Bishopbriggs should be extended to all prisoners.

    BBC: A television in a cell at Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow

  • Finally, the letter encourages Freeh to utilize the expertise of the General Accounting Office -- a congressional agency -- as it decides how to upgrade its computer system.

    CNN: graphic

  • Last month, after a series of breaches at Newark Airport, a Homeland Security inspector general report found the agency is failing to adequately report, track and fix security breaches at airports.

    CNN: TSA proposes firing 7 Philadelphia airport employees

  • Anti-doping officials have said nothing short of a confession under oath "not talking to a talk-show host, " is how World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman put it could prompt a reconsideration of Armstrong's lifetime ban from sanctioned events.

    NPR: Armstrong Admits Doping: 'I'm A Flawed Character'

  • "Pathetic efforts to smother dissent and intimidate media is a sign of a shaky regime and a bunker mentality, " Mohamed ElBaradei, an Egyptian opposition leader and former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, wrote in a Twitter post Saturday.

    CNN: Prosecutors question 'Egypt's Jon Stewart'

  • "When selecting its furlough days, HUD did so in a way in which impacts to the mission of the agency and to the general public would be minimized, " said Melanie Roussell, a spokeswoman.

    NPR: Furlough Friday: Unpaid Day Off For Many In Gov't

  • It took a month of negotiations between the Lebanese and Syrian governments before Syria consented to having the Lebanese General Security Directorate, a Hezbollah-controlled agency, retrieve the bodies, said Sheik Mohammed Ibrahim, a Tripoli-based cleric.

    WSJ: As Syrian Crisis Intensifies, Fight Bleeds Into Lebanon

  • Bachelet was tipped as a possible leader of the agency immediately after the General Assembly voted unanimously in July 2010 to create UN Women.

    NPR: Michelle Bachelet Says She's Going Back To Chile

  • Historically, Social Security has found these reviews lead to roughly 12% of beneficiaries losing their payments, according to a recent report by the agency's inspector general.

    WSJ: Deal Clears Path to More Disability Reviews

  • Talks between Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency are "going around in circles, " the agency's director general told a meeting of U.N. officials in Vienna on Monday.

    CNN: Story highlights

  • "We have suffered for ... years, and that's why we are committed, " President Andres Pastrana said at a meeting with Attorney General John Ashcroft and Drug Enforcement Agency chief Asa Hutchinson.

    CNN: More reserves called up for holiday season homeland duty

  • According to the report by the IRS inspector general, the agency developed and followed a faulty policy to determine whether the applicants were engaged in political activities, which would disqualify the groups from receiving tax-exempt status.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • We have selected them on the basis that they produce an RSS feed of news stories available through Moreover, that the stories are originated and not simply a rehash of agency stories, that they are general news sites, not campaigning or single issue sites, that the feed does not include adverts, and finally that they have a certain scale across your city, county or region.

    BBC: links to other news sites

  • Following the US's lead, on Thursday Yukiya Amano, the new Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency wrote a letter to IAEA member states asking for their suggestions for how to convince Israel to sign the NPT.

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  • Much progress has been made in the past year, said David Aufhauser, general counsel to the American Treasury and head of a joint agency task-force on terrorist finance.

    ECONOMIST: Money launderers keep a few steps ahead of academe

  • The Secretary-General tasked UNESCO, the UN specialized agency with a mandate for science, to take the lead on following up on the science-related recommendations, the first step in their implementation.

    UNESCO: Biodiversity Initiative

  • The Secretary-General tasked Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, the UN specialized agency with a mandate for science, to take the lead on following up on the science-related recommendations of the report.

    UNESCO: EDUCATION

  • He also had to find a certified contractor to draw up a general plan for the project to take to the Russian standards agency, which would then oversee every detail of the construction work no doubt finding many more snags along the way.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia

  • "We would like to reinforce security around US bases jointly used by Japanese defence forces, " he told reporters at the Defence Agency, as Defence Minister General Nakatani cut short a trip to Indonesia and headed home.

    BBC: Security alerts spread from US

  • At every new role I took on, there was a learning curve, but in general, the skills I developed at the Agency translated easily into the private sector.

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  • In the waning days of the Clinton administration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • In the waning days of the Clinton ad-ministration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.

    FORBES: Surplus?

  • Yet since his subordinate, former CIA Director General David Petraeus, recently testified before a congressional intelligence committee that his agency knew terrorists were responsible from the very beginning, he can hardly plead ignorance of that same information.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • "We should seriously consider the lessons to be learnt and, if necessary, re-examine the regulations on the safety of large passenger ships in the light of the findings of the casualty investigation, " Koji Sekimizu, secretary-general of the U.N. agency, said in a statement Monday.

    WSJ: Cruise Operators See Shares Fall, Defend Safety

  • The attorney general highlighted an agreement to open a new U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency office in Beijing.

    CNN: Reno Asks China's Help

  • "He's got to follow a certain course, " David Howman, director general of World Anti-Doping Agency, told the AP.

    NPR: Lance Armstrong May Not Be Done Confessing

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