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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

The AND has been criticized for its connections to the pharmaceutical industry, including an inquiry from Senator Chuck Grassley.

Anderson Report

Wearne, a publisher from South Yarra, told the inquiry that 'Scientologists planned to take over Australia, after establishing a "Scientology Government"' and that 'he first heard of the plan to take over Australia in 1960'.

Bert Vaux

Vaux's Law (as labelled by Avery & Idsardi 2001, Iverson & Salmons 2003), which he first formulated in a 1998 article in Linguistic Inquiry, states that laryngeally unspecified—i.e. voiceless--fricatives become GW/sg in systems contrasting fricatives without reference to GW/sg; thus they are to be aspirated or, more technically, to be pronounced with a spread glottis.

Brian Wynne

He was an Inaugural Member of the Management Board and Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, (EEA), (1994-2000) and a Special Adviser to the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee Inquiry into Science and Society, (March 2000).

Cam Winton

Winton made a formal inquiry to the Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development, requesting transparency regarding municipal financing of real estate development near the proposed Minnesota Vikings stadium; his inquiry resulted in the release of previously undisclosed information regarding a potential "Ultimate Park" development and attracted increased public scrutiny for the financing of the proposed developments.

Carol Driver

She has also freelanced as a TV anchor for Channel 10 in Australia - including for Prime Minister David Cameron's appearance at the Leveson Inquiry.

Charles Iain Hamilton

"Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October-November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty , in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, (London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984).

Colonization Societies

Jay (son of John Jay), An Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization and Antislavery Societies (New York, 1834)

Committee on Judicial Accountability

Anil B. Divan said "The aforementioned new bill is worse than the old Judges Inquiry Act and it needs to be scrapped in toto. This new bill is nothing but a sham".

Cory Collusion Inquiry

Also sitting on the inquiry are academic professor Andrew Coyle from the University of London and the former Bishop of Hereford, the Reverend John Oliver.

Crevalcore train crash

The official inquiry, led by Bologna's public prosecutor Andrea Scarpa, charged 10 people, including Trenitalia CEO Mauro Moretti and the Head of the infrastructure division of RFI Michele Mario Elia, of causing a rail disaster, involuntary homicide and involuntary wounding.

David Kohler

After a public inquiry in 1996, outline consent for the plan was given, contingent on widening of the adjacent M1 motorway.

David Schippers

He became a public figure when a friend of his, Congressman Henry Hyde, asked him to be the Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, which was holding an inquiry on whether President Bill Clinton had committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, during which he committed perjury regarding his affair with then White House Intern Monica Lewinsky.

Donald J. Ryder

In 2003 Ryder conducted an inquiry into abuse of prisoners in Iraq, cited in the Taguba Report.

Elkesley

A Public Inquiry was planned for 2010 but postponed pending the outcome of the Spending Review.

Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

External commentators, such as Mr Peter Garling, SC, have described these processes as 'onerous' during a 2008 statutory inquiry.

Fitzgerald Report

Fitzgerald Report or Fitzgerald Inquiry, a 1989 inquiry into police misconduct in Queensland

French Parliamentary Commission on Rwanda

In connection with the inquiry, the committee members spent two days in Rwanda, visiting the Murambi memorial and meeting with Rwandan officials and private organizations.

Haridas Chaudhuri

Bahman Shirazi of the California Institute of Integral Studies has defined Integral Psychology as "a psychological system concerned with exploring and understanding the totality of the human phenomenon....(which) at its breadth, covers the entire body-mind-psyche-spirit spectrum, while at its depth...encompasses the previously explored unconscious and the conscious dimensions of the psyche, as well as the supra-conscious dimension traditionally excluded from psychological inquiry".

Hinduja Group

On 26 January 2001, Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of prejudicing the independent inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair, after he declared that Keith Vaz not done "anything wrong".

Ingemar Eliasson

In 2003, Eliasson chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the 1945 disappearance and subsequent death of the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.

James Coppinger

In January 2013, along with several other people, including fellow footballers, Coppinger faced a race-fixing inquiry with allegations of corruption in gambling on horses to lose on Betting exchanges in nine races between 1 November 2010 and 31 March 2011.

Jim Muhwezi

In June 2006, a Commission of Inquiry, headed by Justice James Munage Ogoola, set up by the Ugandan Government to inquire into the misuse of funds of the Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, found in its report that Jim Muhwezi and his two Ministers of State, Captain Mike Mukula and Dr. Alex Kamugisha, were responsible for misuse of public funds.

Joanna Russ

The late 1960s and 1970s marked the beginnings of feminist SF scholarship—a field of inquiry that was all but created single-handedly by Russ, who contributed many essays on feminism and science fiction that appeared in journals such as College English and Science Fiction Studies.

Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

In June 2002, after Vice President Dick Cheney called Goss and Graham to chastise them for a media leak from the inquiry, they asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate the leak.

M67 motorway

Plans for a road at the eastern end of the M67 passing to the north of the current A628 route past Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle were cancelled in 2009 following four adjournments of the public inquiry due to inconsistencies in the official traffic models.

Mario Schjetnan

At Berkeley, he was taught systems theory, ecological planning, and social inquiry techniques by Garrett Eckbo, Robert Royston, Donald Appleyard, and Ian McHarg.

Mark Philo

An inquiry into the crash, which also resulted in the death of the driver of another car, found that it was caused by Philo driving whilst intoxicated by alcohol.

Mikhail Taube

From 1904 to 1905 he has been involved as a legal representative of Russia at the Paris international commission of inquiry on the case of Dogger Bank incident, along with Admiral Fyodor Dubasov played a big role in the successful defense of Russian interests in this complex case.

Nicola Squitti

On January 23, 1887 Baron Squitti, under instructions from the State Department the Italian Consul at Philadelphia, conducted an inquiry into the death of Michael Fezano; an Italian frozen to death in a lockup in the City of Carbondale, USA on Christmas Day.

PENTTBOM

PENTTBOM is the codename for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into the September 11 attacks of 2001, the largest criminal inquiry in United States history.

Phone-in

In 2007, the BBC suspended all phone-in competitions (but not voting) due to an internal inquiry into corruption in the production of these games in shows such as charity telethons after a nationwide inquiry into the whole process leading to the cancellation of ITV Play.

Project Mogul

In 1994-1995, in response to an official inquiry by New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, the Air Force published a report which advanced the theory that Mogul Flight #4, launched from Alamogordo, New Mexico, on June 4, 1947, was what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and formed the source of the debris which sparked the Roswell UFO Incident.

Raju Ramachandran

He also represented Kerala before the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, besides the Justice RS Pathak Inquiry Committee, which inquired into issues arising from the Volcker Report.

Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach

She supported the campaigns to end submarine operations of the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Firth of Clyde, to hold another inquiry into the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and the successful bid for the residents of Gigha to buy their own island.

Robert Ritter

In 1948, at the behest of Roma survivors of the Porajmos, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office opened an inquiry into Ritter's Nazi-era activities.

Ronald Davison

Sir Ronald headed the government inquiry (1994–1997) into certain matters related to overseas company taxation, popularly known as the Winebox Inquiry.

Royal Commission for the Investigation of all Grievances Affecting His Majesty's Subjects of Lower Canada

Governor Gosford lead the royal commission of inquiry as commissioner together with Charles Edward Grey and George Gipps.

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

The Commission of Inquiry investigate the evolution of the relationship among aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), the Government of Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and part of the Culture of Canada as a whole.

Scott Harshbarger

On September 22, 2009, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced that Harshbarger and Proskauer "would lead an independent inquiry into the organizational systems and processes surrounding the social services of the organization" pursuant to the recent allegations of corruption within that organization in the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.

Sinclair Stevens

In December 1987, a special commission of inquiry headed by Justice William Parker ruled he had violated conflict of interest allegations on fourteen counts.

Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet

He took part in the convention of volunteer delegates which met in Dublin under the presidency of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont in November 1783, and was appointed a member of the committee of inquiry into the state of the borough representation in Ireland.

Stoke Park Hospital

The colony was the first institution certified as a home for mentally retarded patients under the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, the Rev. Burden having been a member of the Royal Commission for inquiry into care of the feeble-minded that lead to the Act.

Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed

Krishna Tirath, Minister of Women and Child Development, apologized on behalf of her ministry for publishing a photograph of a former Pakistan Air Force chief in a government advertisement and said an inquiry will ascertain who was responsible for it.

Taxicabs of Australia

The Victorian Government introduced legislation in early June 2011 to provide support to the Taxi Industry Inquiry including by establishing a statutory authority, the Taxi Services Commission, to give clear organisational separation to the inquiry and to provide the inquiry with sufficient powers to obtain information and report to Government.

Trial of the Detectives

Following the Committee of Inquiry, the Detective Branch was reorganised into the CID.

Utegate

The following day, Senator Eric Abetz (Liberal, Tasmania) moved that an inquiry into the OzCar scheme be conducted by the Senate Economics Legislation Committee and that, "the Committee should hear evidence from relevant bodies and individuals, including the Department of Treasury, about the operation and management of the proposed OzCar scheme."

Vitaly Nikolayenko

He helped conduct an inquiry after Michio Hoshino, the renowned Japanese bear photographer, was pulled out of his tent and eaten by a bear in 1996 in the southern reserve, a more remote region neighbouring the 2.8 million acre (11,000 km²) Kronotsky state reserve where Nikolayenko was based.

Winter Soldier

Winter Soldier Investigation, an inquiry into American war crimes during the Vietnam War, held in 1971

Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan, an inquiry into American war crimes during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, held in 2008


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