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adj. 联邦的；同盟的
n. 北部联邦同盟盟员；北京连邦软件产业发展公司，国内主要的正版软件经销商
n. (Federal)人名；(英)费德勒尔

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The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

Unfortunately, many federal and state laws impose post-conviction restrictions on a shockingly large number of Americans, who are prevented from ever fully paying their debt to society.

The only industries swelling their payrolls are health care, utilities and the federal government.

He also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites.

To conform to the Federal guidelines

The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.

Why did the Federal Aviation Authority require the black boxes be painted orange or yellow

They are owned by individuals and by private businesses and corporations, lending institutions, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government agencies at the local, state, and federal level.

"I think we're unique as a federal agency," USPS official Mike Swigart told me, "because we're in literally every community in this country."

Along with this effort, we're working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to strengthen anti-cruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal shelters that care for animal fighting

Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

In a 2011 USPS case study, the agency emphasized its massive infrastructure as a "unique federal asset" to be called upon in a disaster or terrorist attack.

One official says USPS is unique in that it has more direct reach to communities compared with other federal agencies.

The companies developing self-driving vehicles should be partnering with state and federal authorities to offer retraining for this massive workforce, many of whom will be displaced by the new technology.

The decision involved months of lobbying and coordinated conversations between a number of federal agencies.

Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.

This year's electronics show featured the presence of many officials from the federal government.

Secretary Anthony Foxx, to talk about smart cities, and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta, to talk about drones.

In addition to many senior officials from the Federal Trade and Federal Communications commissions, this year's list of policy makers also includes appearances from Transportation Curran, the Accenture analyst, said that increased government interest in the show makes sense as technology becomes a larger part of our lives.

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration ( ' , FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

Government bonds are a secure investment because these bonds have the financial backing and full faith and credit of the federal government.

Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.

Scholars will debate which interventions this time - the Federal Reserve's support of a failing credit system, guarantees of bank debt, Obama's ''stimulus" plan and bank "stress test" - counted most in preventing a recurrence.

In addition, almost all of the 532 billion the federal government provides for university research is awarded competitively.

The stack of congressional regulations governing federal student grants and loans now stands twice as tall as I do

A few sensible federal measures could put the country back on the right path.

Some schools out for profit cynically increase tuitions and count on student loans and federal aid to foot the bill – knowing full well that the students won't make it.

State and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates

Workers have the legal rights to refuse certain unsafe work assignments under two federal laws: the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

What does the man say about the two federal laws

higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration FA and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

There, his students of "citizen statistics" learn to analyze public information like the federal budget and corporate reports.

Today, federal agencies are pulling the island fox from the Endangered Species list.

The transition is now going through crash tests to make sure it meets federal safety standards.

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme Count that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

Pledging to run Pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Two of the three objecting Justice-Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas-agreed with this Constitutional logic but disagreed about which Arizona rules conflicted with the federal statute.

The White House argued that Arizona's laws conflicted with its enforcement priorities, even if state laws complied with federal statutes to the letter.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

That’s because Congress has always envisioned joint federal-state immigration enforcement and explicitly encourages state officers to share information and cooperate with federal colleagues.

Some powers do belong exclusively to the federal government,and control of citizenship and the borders is among them.

Justice Anthony Kennedy,joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's liberals,ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.

In December 2010 America's Federal Trade Cornmission ( ' , FTC) proposed adding a.

In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the federal government and the states.

"The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction," says biologist Jay lininger.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

America's Federal Trade commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers.

Arizona had attempted to fashion state policies that ran parallel to the existing federal ones.

As Moritz puts it, how often are federal dollars building homes that are likely to be lost to a wildfire?

At the very least, the court should make itself subject to the code of conduct that applies to the rest of the federal judiciary.

But Ashe and others argued that the" threatened" tag gave the federal government flexibility to try out new, potentially less confrontational conservative approaches.

But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.

Curbs on business - method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual- fund as

Federal health officials released Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began taking orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine.

In 2010, a federal judge shook America's biotech industry to its core.

In December 2010 America's Federal Trade Commission proposed adding a "do not track" option to internet browsers, so that users could tell advertisers that they did not want to be followed.

In effect, fewer federal funds today are going towards the agency's other work—such as forest conservation, watershed and cultural resources management, and infrastructure upkeep—that affect the lives of all Americans.

In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken's habitat.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Justice Anthony Kennedy,joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Courts liberals, ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a proposal to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card,

Last year a federal task-force urged reform for patents related to genetic tests.

Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

now stand at a record $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve.

Pledging to run pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

Some powers do belong exclusively to the federal government, and control of citizenship and the borders is among them.

That's because Congress has always envisioned joint federal-state immigration enforcement and explicitly encourages state officers to share information and cooperate with federal colleagues.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as "a shocking assertion of federal executive power".

The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization" and that federal laws precede state laws are non-controversial.

The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the courts judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should "reconsider" its State Street Bank ruling.

The Federal circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction.

The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse.

The shortage is compounded by federal immigration raids, which remove some workers and drive others underground.

There are many reasons this formerly stable federal institution finds itself at the brink of bankruptcy.

They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered, " a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community.

Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of wildfires is a national concern because of impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.