The most impressive accomplishment of the Gambling Impact Study Commission may be that its members did not throttle one another.
You may recall the minimum wage study commission convened by President Carter.
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It points to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, which in 1999 concluded that a mere 0.6% of America's adult population had serious problems with gambling.
We don't need a study commission to know that tensions are inevitable in conditions offering little or no privacy, increasing the stress of daily military life.
In 1977 Congress established the Minimum Wage Study Commission.
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In February, President Alejandro Toledo's government set up a group to study the commission's proposals.
To conduct the study, Commission staff members searched the Apple and Android app stores, which each contain more than 700, 000 apps.
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No big changes are likely to be announced before the mid-term elections, but the president has said he will listen to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission appointed by Congress to study alternatives to current policy, which will issue a report, probably later this year.
Mr Wills said the Ministry of Justice would study the Electoral Commission's report.
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But Jim Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Study's Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th presidency, believes the cyber czar's waning authority was a factor.
Many pension consultants fail to disclose conflicts of interest to their clients and accept undisclosed compensation from money managers and brokerages, according to the results of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission study, which were released this morning.
Meanwhile, a second study from the Commission of all 68 NHS specialist community mental health trusts in England, found that almost half of under 65s needing specialist mental healthcare still do not have an out-of-hours number if they are in a crisis.
In the new study, the Sentencing Commission conducted a separate analysis that excluded sentences of probation.
Mr. Gingrich has done precisely that with Ron Paul by calling for a commission to study the gold standard.
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While the Nevada State Athletic Commission will study the matter, there appeared to be no grounds for a reversal.
In his first year as president Reagan set up the U.S. Gold Commission to study returning to the gold standard.
Romanian President Traian Basescu has urged the European Commission to study the Italian decree to see whether it complies with EU law.
Can you imagine President Bush calling for a bipartisan commission to study the business regulations and corporate tax structures of all countries?
In 1998 Congress will have its own commission to study the issue.
According to a study for the European Commission of three sectors in 13 countries, Germany has more reserved professions than all but one.
In June, Ms. Raimondo formed a 12-member commission to study potential solutions, which included four union representatives as well as several accountants and consultants.
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His bill merely instructs the Federal Communications Commission to study the issue and institutes an "Internet Consumers' Bill of Rights" that critics have disparaged as worthless.
The assembly voted in support of the minister, following a lengthy debate, but called for a special commission to study the general issue "for the sake of the peace and unity of the church".
In the study, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) foresees the increase of poverty in the region by 1.1%, and of extreme poverty by 0.8%, compared to 2008.
Its call for a commission to study the feasibility of returning the U.S. dollar to the gold standard appeals to the coveted Independents very much, not to mention parts of the Democratic voter base.
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Complicating the budget situation is the president's decision against a commission to study a downward revision in the Consumer Price Index, which would reduce cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients and trim other federal benefits.
The Dodd Frank legislation aimed to change this, by requiring the Securities and Exchange Commission to study the possibility of having something called the fiduciary standard, that is, the requirement to act in their clients best interests, apply to all sellers of financial services, not just investment advisers as the law currently reads.
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Mr Bush also ignored the managed withdrawal advocated by the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission co-chaired by James Baker, a former secretary of state.
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The decision to commission such a study was a classic bureaucratic stalling tactic in the face of a full-court press by the West Germans and other European allies at the Houston Economic Summit.
"The safety of our children is paramount, and we have to get this precisely right, " said Dr. Amy Gutmann, who chairs the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which released its report Tuesday.
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