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Students can also take subject matter courses in cognate areas aimed at complementing and supporting their specialized areas of interest within the history of education . Throughout this huge area , there have been sinkings of merchant ships in alarming and increasing numbers by Nazi raiders or submarines . General aviation did receive good news when the size of the Super Bowl no-fly zone and the duration of the restriction were announced , as severe weeklong restrictions covering a much wider area were among the initial proposals . In addition , we will increase our focus on Nutrition and maintain an active presence in important areas such as Dietary Supplement safety and Cosmetics . The growing recognition among economists and legal scholars that patents are probabilistic property rights has significant implications for our understanding of patents in four important areas : ( 1 ) reform of the system by which patents are granted ; ( 2 ) the legal treatment of patents in litigation ; ( 3 ) the incentives of patent holders and alleged infringers to settle their disputes through licensing or cross-licensing agreements rather than litigate them to completion ; and ( 4 ) the antitrust limits on agreements between rivals that settle actual or threatened patent litigation . We then study how these problems play out in 4 important areas : employment policies , culture and scientific research , foreign and defense policies , and fiscal policy . Intercity Passenger Rail Security Grant Program : Amtrak will receive more than $ 7.2 million to continue security enhancements for intercity passenger rail operations in the Northeast Corridor ( service between Washington , DC and Boston ) , Amtrak 's hub in Chicago and to expand these enhancements into the West Coast Service Area in key , high-risk urban areas . The group is working on both the analytical foundations of modern microeconomics and the application of these ideas to important areas of economic policy . Service Area : is defined as a geographic area with precise boundaries that is federally-designated , in whole or in part , as a MUA or a MUP .