As part of the unprecedented accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is charged with providing to Congress quarterly reports on the effects of the Recovery Act on overall economic activity, and on employment in particular.
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Since they are a self-declared seller of prepaid access (MSB code 413), they now must comply with a litany of Bank Secrecy Act requirements, including Suspicious Activity Reporting.
Now tax evasion has become a target under the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) while criminal activity is a constant concern.
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The cases turn on whether online postings mirror activity that is protected under the Wagner Act, as the 1935 law is also known.
The ultimate goal for IBM is not only to show that this suite of applications can be more valuable through integration of news feeds created from activity streams, but to also to act as a conduit so that the rest of the applications and sources of information used in a business can have their value amplified by social networking mechanisms.
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This will act as a non fiscally expansive stimulus to private sector activity.
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Morrison, Rehnquist, again writing for the majority, declared parts of the federal Violence Against Women Act unconstitutional, arguing, again, that no economic activity was involved.
President Obama took an important first step toward stimulating economic activity in the startup sector by signing the JOBS Act in April.
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The reason for this stems back to the Public Order Act of 1986, which states that a riot is an activity during which 12 or more persons must be present together and use and threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose.
That estimate includes both direct and indirect jobs, and it includes not just a subset of the spending that has to be reported on through recipients, but the full set of Recovery Act activities that are out there in the field creating economic activity so far.
So has the JOBS Act achieved its stated objectives of opening the IPO floodgates and jumpstarting startup activity?
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She said the purpose of the act was to prevent the intimidation and disruption of people engaged in lawful activity.
Moreover, is the act of reporting an exercise in external communication or more of an introspective activity to improve processes and strategies?
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In other words, Congress has broad power to act under the Commerce Clause, but there has to be existing commercial activity for that to happen.
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Internet service providers can theoretically see criminal activity in action, and increasingly, they are being asked to act on that intimate knowledge of our online activities.
In a 1948 case dealing with the World War II era Emergency Price Control Act, the Supreme Court held that the government can require individuals engaged regulated activity to maintain and produce certain types of records.
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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 brought that to a crashing halt with the enactment of the passive activity loss rules (Section 469) which was a blow to real estate values.
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Yet unless the remitters became embroiled in a serious crime, often involving drug money, Western lawmakers largely ignored them, focusing instead on trying to dam the river of dirty money that flowed through traditional banking channels--chiefly through the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, and later its amendments, which required banks to file reports of suspicious activity and high-dollar transactions, and to maintain information about account holders' identities.
Last year, Modumetal received a grant from the United States Department of Energy that was made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and that grant made it possible for us to conduct some important business development activity -- or rather product development activities inside of the company.
Filburn argued that the Act was unconstitutional as applied to him because he was not using the excess wheat for any activity in the interstate market.
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The draft text of the agreement, obtained by Reuters, stated that "Europe will act in a united, strong, rapid and decisive manner to avoid a recessionary spiral and sustain economic activity and employment".
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