Related Code Systems There are alternative classification systems to using SIC Codes. A common and highly detailed business classification system can be found with the NAICS Code system. The NAICS Code system is used by the US Government for statistical classification, compilation, and analysis. To ...
Government-supported agencies, by contrast, existed as state and municipal agencies as early as 1834 to alleviate unemployment. The U.S. government established a federal employment agency in reaction to the economic crisis of 1907—its focus being the employment of newly-arrived immigrants. This ...
Another aspect of the legal portion of general contracting is the vast array of government laws. These laws include both local and area laws. Examples of such laws include laws relating to the inspection and approval of works, the acceptance of plans, the use of certain materials, the con...
The New England states became centers of commerce and industry, with a municipal-type government and a locally elected constable to enforce the laws. In the southern part of the country, which was more agricultural and rural, the county form of government was more suitable, and the county sher...
asphalt. In 1994 research was done to help implement materials, such as blast furnace and steel slags, carpet fibers, coal ash by-products, including fly ash and bottom ash, glass, municipal solid waste combustion ash, recycled plastic, roofing shingle wastes, and rubber tires into roads and ...
Health screenings are done by municipal health departments as well as independent commercial establishments. Unlike the rest of the activities on this list, medical equipment like oxygen tents are profit-making ventures, while medical art and photography may be provided by independent entrepreneurs ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, private central stations began monitoring fire alarms as well. Fire alarm monitoring, however, tended to be contracted out by municipal fire departments, rather than directly by property owners. A number of cities were beginning to privatize their fire alarm monitoring serv...
These institutions were managed by city governments and partially funded by municipal taxes. So specialized had the industry become that special colleges for women and for black Americans began operating in the nineteenth century. The overall trend in higher education, however, has been toward co...
Spurred by government regulations governing the disposal of used industrial sand, the use of recycled or reclaimed foundry sand is also increasing. Fracturing Sand. Fracturing or hydraulic "frac" sand, also known as "proppant" sand, accounted for 5 percent of U.S. industrial sand production in...
government fiscal years 1999 to 2008. While first-class mail is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 1.8 percent in fiscal years 1999 to 2002, it is also projected that growth will then decline at an average annual rate of 2.5 percent in fiscal years 2003 to 2008. If realized...