1.  There is no reason that such a department cannot make the training accessible and relevant to liberal arts and science students alike.

2.  But Gibbons says such a department would merely replace a flexible structure of scientific funding with a cumbersome bureaucracy.

3.  The Rangers were the first to have such a department, and now half the teams in baseball have split their professional and amateur scouting.

4.  Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, would be the likely top executive of such a department.

5.  A bill has been filed in the Senate for the creation of such a department.

6.  Such a department would give farmers a place to receive information concerning their products and the markets, both domestic or international, supporters of the proposal said.