In 2009, Maryland-based financial consulting firm Quantria Strategies did a study on effective tax rates on companies for the Small Business Administration.

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But also, you know, everything going on with the Iraqi Study Group, with the Bush administration reconsidering its plans, you know, Abizaid sort of saw the writing on the wall that the Bush administration was considering a new plan.

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And now it turns out that, while the program's fate was being sealed in Congress, the administration deliberately sat on a study its own Department of Education completed weeks earlier.

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The Federal Aviation Administration says it will study the use of portable electronic devices on airplanes, and it is fair to say the airline industry is wary.

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In June 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new regulations on sunscreen, updates that took 34 years of study and deliberation to develop.

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Landowners and industry say they're missing out on an economic boom while environmentalists say the administration should have ordered a full health study and has been too opaque about the regulatory process.

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The rest of the employee base comes from companies with 1 to 499 employees, according to a recent 2009 study done for the U.S. Small Business Administration about the impact of federal income taxes on small businesses.

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