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- Remember the Soviet Union's "five year plans," which we Westerners ridiculed as representing the worst sort of top-down, command-and-control economic planning? We have something similar in the United States. It's called a Farm Bill. Despite a veto threat from President Bush, the House of Representatives on Friday...
- Research articles 2007-07-31
- When Santa Claus slips into cash machine...
- ZAGREB AFP — Dozens of Croatians could not believe their luck when a cashpoint paid out twice the amount requested just before Christmas. Instead of 50 kuna bills (seven euros, nine dollars), customers received 100 kunas. News of the machine making bountiful Santa Claus style handouts quickly got around and...
- Research articles 2006-12-28
- Nigeria gets $50m to fight avian flu
- The World Bank has stepped in with a cash handout to help Nigeria, the first African country to face an outbreak of avian flu. The Bank warned that all countries in sub-Saharan Africa should now be considered at high risk of infection. The money has come from the World...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- MPs propose cash handouts for Kuwaitis
- KUWAIT CITY AFP — Five Kuwaiti lawmakers proposed the creation of a fund to distribute cash handouts every year to citizens of the oil-rich state potentially worth several billion dollars in total. The fund, which would be named after late emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, would take 25 percent...
- Research articles 2006-02-14
- Rye Telephone Co. launches grassroots campaign to combat bill and keep.
- With the FCC's decision about the future of intercarrier compensation looming on the horizon, rural telecommunications service providers are well aware of the need for grass-roots advocacy in their communities. Despite the difficulties that often accompany such efforts in rural areas, one network technician and a...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- EXPERT SAYS US DUTIES ON VIETNAM SHRIMP EXPORTS ARE "POLITICAL HANDOUTS".
- HANOI, Dec 6 Asia Pulse - The US Department of Commerce's DoC final decision on duties on Vietnamese shrimp exports in the anti-dumping suit is antithetical to American ideals of freedom and democracy, said Jonathan Stamell, President of the Stamell & Associates Firm in New York. Talking with...
- Research articles 2004-12-06
- Free condom handout suspended by Beijing universities
- BEIJING AFP — Two top Beijing universities have suspended a programme to distribute free condoms to students to prevent HIV/AIDS, frowning on it as "inappropriate". Administrators at prestigious Beijing University and Tsinghua University prevented the handout going ahead Tuesday, saying it was not acceptable and that organizers had not...
- Research articles 2004-11-24
- After 37 years, Harlingen, Texas, SBA administrator looks to retire.
- By Tony Vindell, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 8--For nearly 40 years, Victoria R. Sanchez has been reporting to work at the same organization, the U.S. Small Business Administration. And now, the Weslaco resident said...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- Southwest changes exit rules
- Southwest Airlines has strengthened exit-row training for flight attendants and published handouts for passengers who want to pre-board, such as families and the disabled. The blue handouts, in English and Spanish, explain what types of passengers are, for safety reasons, barred from sitting in the row next to the...
- Research articles 2004-06-15
- All's fair in love and war — and free trade
- There's the "Free Trade but Fair Trade" crowd, and the "Level Playing Field" crowd, and the "America First" crowd, all calling for tariffs and other international trade restrictions. Their supposed adversary is corporate America, seeking to boost profits by either importing goods made by cheaper foreign labor or relocating plants...
- Research articles 2004-02-04
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ernest Holsendolph Column.
- By Ernest Holsendolph, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 6--Delta Air Lines has been much in the news lately but for all the wrong reasons. Even Chairman Leo Mullin would not dispute that. Especially Mullin. First, filings...
- Research articles 2003-04-06
- ... While government seeks to keep fishermen afloat.(Brief Article)
- Legislators also approved a program that would buy as much as half of the fleet used to catch groundfish. The motive is to reduce competition, so that chances would improve for the remaining fishermen to prosper and for depleted stocks to return, reported The Los Angeles ...
- Research articles 2003-02-17
- NCLB final regs
- The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education released the final regulations for the No Child Left Behind Act NCLB. "Title I -- Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged; Final Rule," was published in the Dec 2 Federal register and is available now at www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/2002-4/120202a.pdf. If...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Air Canada's request for $2 billion in post WTC aid to the airline industry was spumed October 2 by Transport Minister David Collenette, who offered $160 million immediately and promised a second phase of handouts. (Duly Noted).
- * Air Canada's request for $2 billion in post WTC aid to the airline industry was spumed October 2 by Transport Minister David Collenette, who offered $160 million immediately and promised a second phase of handouts. Air Canada (which is to say, its shareholders) will receive...
- Research articles 2001-10-22
- United States: Dumpster diving for women on welfare
- news OREGON-The Adult and Family Services AFS division of Oregon's Department of Human Services DHS has issued a written apology for suggesting that women on welfare "check the dump and residential/business dumpsters" to help make ends meet. This illegal degradation was listed on a "Shopping Tips to Save $" handout...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- The New Paternalism.(Brief Article)
- THE NEW PATERNALISM. Edited by Lawrence Mead. Brookings; 343 pages; $42.95. Sold in Britain by Plymbridge; K33.50. AMERICA'S poor used to get benefits, including food stamps, with few strings attached. Nowadays, entitlements are out of fashion. Poor people are being asked to "earn" their handouts, by...
- Research articles 1997-12-13
- Design and development of a courseware suite: the NASA-RECON project.
- The NASA-RECON educational package, developed at the Univ of Southwestern Louisiana, is a fully transportable, system-independent educational curriculum on information storage and retrieval systems. A series of grants and contracts from NASA made development of the package possible, and it is now in use at more than 160 US colleges...
- Research articles 1989-10-01
- Bottom Line Software Provides Millions of Microsoft PowerPoint Users a New Approach for Creating Customized Presentation Handouts
- BELLEVUE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 3, 1999--
- Research articles 1999-05-03
- How to Write a Conventional Press Release, Where and How to Send it
- A news release is known in the news business as a "handout." News people are used to rewriting handouts. They don't get angry if the news release is not a perfect composition, but they do get upset if the facts are not all there. Small papers have few reporters and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- GM Wants U.S. Loans; Just Please Don't Call it a Handout
- GM Wants U.S. Loans; Just Please Don't Call it a HandoutRE: GM Wants U.S. Loans; Just Please Don't Call it a HandoutThere is a reason the loan program under discussion is part of last year's energy bill -- the two are related. The energy bill requires a massive retooling...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
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