The United States has been demanding that North Korea abandon its missile development program, whose extent is not fully known.
In this same period, of course, the federal government engaged in an illegal domestic wiretapping program, the extent of which is still unknown.
In this investigation the authors examine consumer attitudes toward complying with a persuasive water conservation program, the extent to which those attitudes predict compliance, and the influence of environmental contextual factors on outdoor water use.
Known as the the New York Police Department NYPD SHIELDLD program, the extent of the city's Counterterrorism Bureau's power can be seen everywhere, from the M16-strapped Hercules units stationed at train hubs like Grand Central and Penn Station, to the Critical Response Vehicles that are fixtures at protests and major public events all over the city.
Anne B. Martin, an economist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who was the main author of the report, said the reasons for the differences included the age and incomes of the population, the concentration of doctors in a state, the generosity of public programs, the extent of private health insurance coverage and the mix of services used by state residents.
A second dimension along which one can map peer-cooperative learning programs is the extent to which the program is required of students.
Using standard biological parts, a synthetic biologist or biological engineer can already, to some extent, program living organisms in the same way a computer scientist can program a computer.
"I think this is a good program to the extent that it works," said Christopher J. Mayer, director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School.
Whichever role he settles into, the existence of the program reveals the extent to which news on the supposed all-news channels has been usurped by personality and blather.
Brennan's role in that program and the extent of his involvement in and knowledge of severe interrogation methods such as waterboarding during the Bush era were the subject of pointed questioning during his confirmation hearings after Obama nominated him to head the CIA in January 2013.
