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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent
agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and
investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars.
The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the
GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The
GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right
by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate,
perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that
the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the deregulation
of the airline industry, focusing on: (1) airfares and the
quantity, quality, and safety of air service since deregulation.
GAO noted that: (1) the average fare per passenger mile is 9
percent lower at small-community airports, 11 percent lower at
medium-sized airports, and 8 percent lower at large-community
airports; (2) the largest increase in fares occurred in the
Southeast and Appalachian regions, and the largest decrease
occurred in the West and Southwestern regions; (3) this geographic
disparity exists because of the intense competition between
low-cost, new carriers in the west and dominant, high-maintenance
carriers in the Southeast; (4) the overall quantity of air service
at airports has increased, but large communities have experienced
the largest increase; (5) air service quality is difficult to
measure and depends on the number of destinations served by nonstop
flights and one-stop connections, and the type of aircraft used;
(6) air service quality since deregulation has been mixed largely
due to the airlines hub networks and greater use of turboprop
aircraft; and (7) the overall accident rate since deregulation has
dropped, but there are no statistically significant differences in
air safety trends for any of the airport groups.
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Data Mining (Paperback)
U. S. Governement Accountability Office
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Discovery Miles 3 870
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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Highlights of GAO-05-866, a report to the Ranking Minority Member,
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate The federal
government's increased use of data mining since the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, has raised public and congressional
concerns. As a result, GAO was asked to describe the
characteristics of five federal data mining efforts and to
determine whether agencies are providing adequate privacy and
security protection for the information systems used in the efforts
and for individuals potentially affected by these data mining
efforts.
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