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HOMELAND SECURITY AND OMB NOMINATIONS:SUSAN M. COLLINS
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Congressional Testimony
11-10-2009
Statement of Susan M. Collins Ranking Member Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee Committee on Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs November 10, 2009 Seldom has a nominee for Administrator
of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy come before this Committee
at a more critical time. The federal acquisition system is under tremendous
stress. Between fiscal year 2000 and 2008, acquisition spending by the
federal government expanded by 163 percent, from $205 billion to $539 billion.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy plays ...
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SEDIMENT COULD BE MAJOR FACTOR IN BIGGEST SUBDUCTION ZONE EARTHQUAKES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...dives beneath the other. But not all subduction zones are created equal, and University...they have found a key to determine which subduction zones - or which specific areas within a subduction zone - might produce the most severe shaking...
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Finding fault: trace of old subduction zone found in Italy.(This Week)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...ancient subduction zone occurred at depths...notes, because modern subduction zones don't exhibit seismic...samples from active subduction zones. Remitti and her...samples of an actual subduction zone to study in real detail...
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Geophysicist calls for considering all subduction zones as potential tsunami threats
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...occur at subduction zone, and can be created...the temperature of subduction zones, indicating that temperature...considerations place the Andaman subduction zone in the high-magnitude...characterizes some subduction zones as being incapable...
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Fluid composition in subduction zones. (25 Years of Ocean rilling)
Magazine article from: Oceanus
; ...internally available fluid sources in subduction zones through steady-state...might be transported to the subduction zones is yet unknown. Geochemistry...importance to understanding subduction zone hydrogeochemistry. The only...
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Late Neoproterozoic proto-arc ocean crust in the Dariv Range, Western Mongolia: a supra-subduction zone end-member ophiolite
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...special class of supra-subduction zone ophiolites. Ever since...ridges, or supra-subduction zone oceanic basement...defined supra-subduction zone ophiolite type, providing...tectonic collage of subduction complexes, island arcs...
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Catching subduction in the act. (new subduction zone forming in Pacific Ocean)
Magazine article from: Science News
; Catching subduction in the act As the Pacific plate inches...This recycling process, called subduction, has been going on for tens of millions...earliest stages in the birth of a subduction zone that will eventually form a trench...
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University of New Mexico and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Researchers Find Central American Volcanoes Yield New Clues About Earth Processes; 'Surprise' Finding Shows Nitrogen Is Quickly Recycled Through Subduction Zones.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service
; ...show that in the Guatemalan subduction zone up to 95 percent of the nitrogen...where nitrogen travels during subduction, gives researchers a new glimpse...helium relationships in other subduction zones mainly found bordering the Pacific...
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Birth of a subduction zone.
Magazine article from: Science News
; Birth of a subduction zone A massive earthquake that struck the...signaled the very early stages of subduction there -- the same process that long...ocean trenches around the Pacific. Subduction occurs when two crustal plates collide...
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Scientists report lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...have cited a lower rate of earthquakes along some subduction zones. The study, carried out by scientist Peter Bird...efficiency of earthquake production along slower moving subduction zones. The exact reason for a slower rate is not fully...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Old fault is a new potential threat.(City/Region)(A small earthquake could trigger a larger event in the Cascade Subduction Zone)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...Northern California, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is the earthquake fault that...from its neighbor, the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Blanco's fault line...behave the same as Cascadia, a subduction zone where one plate slides beneath...
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