While these disputes and a desire for further evaluation of AWS programs prevented permanent authorization. of the 1978 law, Congress agreed to amend the law and allow another three-year experiment.18 The Federal. Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act of 1982 allowed agencies to review and terminate.
About this species. Blackthorn is a shrub belonging to the same genus (Prunus) as almond, cherry and plum trees. The specific epithet spinosa refers to the sharp spines or thorns that are characteristic of this plant.
This tree originated in southern China and Taiwan, but is now a common cultivated tree in northern Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, and mountainous regions of Malaysia and Indonesia, parts of Burma. The thin shelled black seeds, one or two to an orange-red pod, are about 3/4 inch long. The kernel inside is yellow in color.