The nonbinding expression of support for D.C. statehood is only a small part of H.R. 1, the anti-corruption bill that passed Friday on a party-line vote of 234 to 193, and which includes such measures as public campaign financing, automatic voter registration and ethics reform.
The prosecutions are part of an overall city effort to tighten supervision of welfare programs, an effort that includes such measures as the fingerprinting of welfare recipients to prevent people from applying for benefits twice, a practice known as double dipping.
It is expected that the TEF will include such measures as the National Student Survey and indexes of added value in employability and intellectual achievement (so called "learning gain").
To achieve that, our transport and planning priorities need to change, including such measures as 20mph speed limits in the streets where children live.
His efforts to revive the Congo's economy included such measures as nationalizing the Katanga copper mines and encouraging foreign investment.
They include such measures as personal budgets for special needs provision, and the replacement of the current model of special educational needs with "single plans" covering education, health and social care.
Since 1990 great effort has been made not only to speed up new construction but also to improve the original railway system, including such measures as building bridges, laying double tracks, and using continuous welded rail.
Application controls are specific to a given application and include such measures as validating input data, logging the accesses to the system, regularly archiving copies of various databases, and ensuring that information is disseminated only to authorized users.
The goals include such measures as the separation of the roles of chairman and chief executive, full disclosure of the boss's pay and stock options, and the appointment of independent directors.
The policies known as the Washington consensus, pushed by international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, including such measures as privatisation, trade liberalisation and deregulation, failed to take account of missing institutional capacity in many developing nations.
They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.
