Private initiatives like Coldwell Banker's won't hurt the economy, says Gayer, but if they are anything like the federal initiative, they won't help much either.
As part of a federal green initiative, the Pentagon wanted to test the iPad as document e-reader for its executives.
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Agencies should consider using acquisition vehicles developed by the OMB's Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative to acquire printing and copying devices and services.
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There are very few meaningful rewards for exercising judgment and initiative inside the federal civil service.
The Initiative works across Federal agencies and with partners and communities nationwide to produce better education programs for African American students.
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But that didnt stop a federal court from ruling the initiative invalid.
In addition, Bernanke said the new initiative by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will reinvigorate interbank lending and the Federal Reserve will continue to work with other central banks.
And to help me meet this goal, Gary Locke recently announced that we're launching a National Export Initiative where the federal government will significantly ramp up its advocacy on behalf of U.S. exporters.
In its response, the IRS noted that 99.25% of its employees are compliant with their federal income tax obligations, according to a September 2010 analysis by the Federal Employee and Retiree Delinquency Initiative office.
The Initiative will provide enhanced coordination of Federal activities in order to increase the impact of Federal resources that support both domestic and foreign investment in the United States.
Executive Order 13534 of March 11, 2010, created the National Export Initiative (NEI), which provides unprecedented Federal support for exports of goods and services by American businesses.
That is partly because of the country's federal structure, which has left the states to take the initiative in electricity deregulation.
It was that Republican-backed initiative, which was later struck down by the federal courts as unconstitutional, that sent California into a political tailspin.
In support of these efforts, last October I launched the Shared-First initiative to root out waste and duplication across the Federal IT portfolio.
Business programs from every federal agency have been thoroughly ramped up, and a new initiative targeting foreign companies thinking about locating in the United States, SelectUSA, was launched in 2011.
In 1986 they won this battle: a federal reporting requirement was enacted, and California passed a ballot initiative that Mr Roe had drafted, requiring another layer of disclosure from state firms.
An anticipated speech from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Wednesday provided the market with no fresh initiative.
The literacy initiative, which targets a traditionally Democratic issue -- federal investment in education -- demonstrates that the GOP has woken up to the importance of the crossover vote.
He touted the administration's initiative to expand the number of loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration, and he praised a private-sector plan to temporarily freeze loans that are headed for foreclosure.
Unlike the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Chinese central bank has not launched a new transparency initiative, and its meetings are not highly-anticipated media events.
This initiative was immediately criticized for its failure to assume an adequate federal responsibility for the costs of, for example, rehabilitating existing airports and building new ones.
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The Boston attack renewed attention on federal budget cuts that reduced spending for a program called Urban Areas Security Initiative, which pays for equipment, training and salaries for counterterrorism efforts.
They joined the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI), federal agency representatives, and local and state leaders to address a range of issues important to the community, including civil rights, economic development, education, health, housing, immigration, , and jobs, and to connect with federal resources in the region.
For example, since September 2005, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been leading a joint public-private initiative to improve arrangements for clearing and settling trades in credit default swaps and other OTC derivatives.
The Wednesday afternoon conclusion of the two-day FOMC meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve was not widely believed to see the Fed announce a major new stimulus initiative (QE3).
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This initiative also represents the first Web service that fulfills both a state and a federal regulatory requirement at the same time.
Kenneth Kaiser, FBI assistant director for the Criminal Investigative Division, said the FBI has developed an initiative focused on subprime mortgage loan fraud and is working with investigators from other federal agencies.
The US government is building a coalition of federal agencies to promote the use of efficient electronic payment transfer methods through The 20% Initiative, an initiative aimed at helping the U.S. us get 20% more bang for our buck.
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The clean-energy export initiative is also being sponsored by the Departments of Commerce, State, and Agriculture and a clutch of federal agencies like the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
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