National Bureau of Standards Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... March 26, 1985

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Page 85 - NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING WE Bingham, Box 64, Tuscaloosa.
Page 102 - Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Washington, DC DEAR MR.
Page 87 - Membership, held by more than 100,000 individual professional engineers, is about equally divided among engineers in private practice; engineers working for federal, state or local governments; and those employed in research and academia. The Society's major goals are to develop engineers who will improve technology and...
Page 81 - Secretary") is hereby directed to establish and maintain within the Department of Commerce a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and engineering information...
Page 81 - Act, that each of the services and functions provided herein shall be self-sustaining or self-liquidating and that the general public shall not bear the cost of publications and other services which are for the special use and benefit of private groups and individuals...
Page 90 - CVS's is maintained by the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology (ICST) at the National Bureau of Standards' (NBS) located in Building 225, Room A266 at Gaithersburg, MD.
Page 105 - The Commission shall, to the maximum extent practicable, utilize the resources and facilities of the National Bureau of Standards, on a reimbursable basis, to perform research and analyses related to risks of injury associated with consumer products (including fire and flammability risks), to develop test methods, to conduct studies and investigations, and to provide technical advice and assistance in connection with the functions of the Commission.
Page 85 - Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. See Appendix A at the subject name "Abortion.
Page 88 - Appropriations; and the chairman, Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Page 20 - It does us little good to design state-of-theart products, if within a short time our foreign competitors can manufacture them more cheaply

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