NIH Details Impact of 2013 Sequester Cuts: In May, officials at the National Institutes of Health began to tally how a 5% cut to their 2013 budget, triggered by a congressional mandate called sequestration, would affect grant numbers and research projects.
The requirement to test for lead in water dates to 1991, when the Safe Drinking Water Act issued a new mandate called the Lead and Copper Rule.
At a village called Gaba, we talked to residents about new homes they had built with subsidies and loans under a government mandate called the "comfortable housing" program, begun in 2006.
The blue helmets already in Bunia had done nothing to prevent appalling massacres in and around the town last month, partly because they lacked numbers and equipment, partly because their mandate called on them to do little besides guard UN property.
Even Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio officeholder whose constitutional mandate called for non-partisan supervision of the state's elections, recorded an announcement distributed using robo-calls to promote Issue One.
Earthjustice, a nonprofit legal arm of the environmental movement, said that under Mr. Schregardus, Ohio disregarded a federal mandate calling for the reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions from utilities and violated the whistle-blower provision of seven federal statutes regarding a contaminated site in Marion, Ohio.
In addition, a government mandate calling for digital tuners inside televisions beginning next year and the growth of personal video recorders and DVD recorders will result in a mini-boom for semiconductor suppliers of consumer-electronics equipment manufacturers.
Still, the members threw one vitriolic jab after another at the mandate, calling it an attack on freedom and an assault on first amendment rights.
The political mandate calls for a sharper look at how the weakest part the child is taken care of and not been thrown "out with the bathwater".
Its mandate calls for close coordination with American forces already in Afghanistan.
