But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

Public finances were in so dire a condition at the time that the terms of the loan were that it was to be serviced at a rate of 8 % per annum, and there was also a service charge of £ 4, 000 per annum for the management of the loan.

The censor was an officer in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances.

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

The total privatization of the pension system has implied a serious burden for the public finances, because the newly created private Pension Association Funds did not absorb coverage of retired pensioners covered in the old system.

The indemnity demanded by the Romans caused strain on the city's finances and forced Carthage to look to other areas of influence for the money to pay Rome.

He later successfully sued his parents and his former advisers for misappropriation of his finances and was awarded $ 1. 3 million.

The protesters have proposed that authorities " lower business taxes as a top up to company finances " to pay for the € 200 pay raises.

The Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See coordinates the finances of the Holy See departments and supervises the administration of all offices, whatever be their degree of autonomy, that manage these finances.

On 16 July 2008, Donald Tsang announced some " extraordinary measures for extraordinary times ", giving a total of HK $ 11 billion in inflation relief to help families ' finances.

To repair his faltering finances, Melville listened to the advice of friends and decided to enter what was for others the lucrative field of lecturing.

Baum had shrewdly transferred most of his property, except for his clothing, his library ( mostly of children's books, such as the fairy tales of Andrew Lang, whose portrait he kept in his study ), and his typewriter ( all of which he successfully argued were essential to his occupation ), into Maud's name, as she handled the finances, anyway, and thus lost much less than he could have.

According to the Global Competitiveness Report, the Most Problematic Factors for Doing Business is the access to finances, corruption and bureaucracy.

Following the death of the club's principal benefactor,, in October 1927, the club's finances deteriorated to the extent that Manchester United would likely have gone bankrupt had it not been for James W. Gibson, who, in December 1931, invested £ 2, 000 and assumed control of the club.

These documents reveal new information about Pius XII's actions regarding the Ustaše regime, the genocides in Poland, the finances of the wartime church, the deportation of the Roman Jews, and the postwar " ratlines " for Nazis and fascists fleeing Europe.

At the head of affairs for the next two decades, Walpole stabilised the nation's finances, kept it at peace, made it prosperous, and secured the Hanoverian Succession.

" In 1803, William Pitt the Younger, also a Tory, suggested to a friend that " this person generally called the first minister " was an absolute necessity for a government to function, and expressed his belief that this person should be the minister in charge of the finances.

Since he had initially used Loft's finances and facilities to establish the new Pepsi success, the near-bankrupt Loft Company sued Guth for possession of the Pepsi-Cola company.

The principal reason given by the government to the court for this assertion was the decision of the rail regulator-announced on 22 September 2002-to carry out an interim review of the company's finances, with the potential to advance significant additional sums to the company.

Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances, until the city repealed its law requiring segregation on public buses following the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.

The Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, is an office of the Roman Curia, erected on 15 August 1967, and entrusted with overseeing all the offices of the Holy See that manage finances, regardless of their degree of autonomy.

According to the organization, freedom of education notably implies the freedom for parents to choose a school for their children without discrimination on the basis of finances.

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

I returned to the hall, despite my dislike for the clerk.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I did it for the valley.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.