News tagged with fiscal difficulties

Money woes threaten Romanian protected areas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dwindling resources and bureaucratic hurdles are threatening to destroy Romania’s protected area system - home to some of Europe’s largest remaining natural forests.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Good and bad news comes with NASA’s 2012 budget

On November 14, President Obama signed an Appropriations bill that solidified NASA’s budget for fiscal year 2012. The space agency will get $17.8 billion. That’s $648 million less than last year’s ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

U.S. investigating ways to conserve fuel in the field

The average U.S. soldier on a 72-hour patrol carries between 10 and 20 pounds of batteries.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft's answer to the iPad is still in pieces

(AP) -- Instead of unveiling an elegant response to the iPad, Microsoft came to the tech industry's premier gadget show with a collection of exposed computer guts, news about microchips and a shallow preview ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers skeptical about bank taxes, regulations still needed

Taxes on executive bonuses, financial transactions and excess profits are a few of the taxes proposed or enacted to punish banks for their role in the recent financial crisis, but most of these ideas have shortcomings, says ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Naval Academy should be center for study of cybersecurity, new superintendent says

The U.S. Naval Academy's new superintendent wants his campus to become a center for cybersecurity education, with a $100 million building and a slate of new classes devoted to the emerging discipline, he said Friday in his ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New England economic outlook precarious; government fiscal woes threaten region's recovery

The New England economic outlook remains precarious, with the regional economy struggling to continue its recovery if the U.S. economy remains weak. The looming federal and state fiscal crises will make a difficult road to ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

State tax incentives for filmmakers has opposite desired effect

Providing tax credit incentives to the movie industry to attract filming to non-traditional locations actually has a negative impact on state revenues, according to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Planning Ed ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

US has no good system to track medical implants

(AP) -- Three years ago, the maker of a surgical clip called the Hem-o-lok issued an urgent recall notice warning doctors to stop using the fasteners on living kidney donors. It said the clips could dislodge ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obama tries to build momentum for health overhaul

(AP) -- President Barack Obama will tell the nation in a prime-time address precisely how he wants to expand health care, pitching a fresh argument - but, to liberal disappointment, no demand - for a government-run ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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