This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Since the mid 1980s, the United States has had a growing deficit in tradeable goods, especially with Asian nations ( China and Japan ) which now hold large sums of U. S debt that has funded the consumption.

In the same year, a bill was introduced in the California Legislature calling for the establishment of a publicly funded " California Institute of Technology ," with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of Throop at the time.

Cleanfeed is funded in the current budget, and is moving towards an Expression of Interest for live testing with ISPs in 2008.

The Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) ( a registered service mark of Carnegie Mellon University, CMU ) is a development model created after study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U. S. Department of Defense, who funded the research.

Engelbart's research was funded by DARPA, and SRI's ARC became involved with the ARPANET, the precursor of the Internet.

After failed negotiations to build a new stadium on the site of the Cotton Bowl, Jerry Jones along with the city of Arlington, Texas a suburb of Fort Worth, funded the stadium at a cost of $ 1. 3 billion.

Most of the features of BIND 9 were funded by UNIX vendors who wanted to ensure that BIND stayed competitive with Microsoft's DNS offerings ; the DNSSEC features were funded by the US military, which regarded DNS security as important.

This was a statutory body appointed and funded by central government ( a quango ), with wide powers to acquire and dispose of land in the Docklands.

An 88-megawatt electricity plant funded by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Abu Dhabi was completed just south of Massawa in 2003, its completion delayed nearly three years by the war with Ethiopia.

* Charter schools are publicly funded schools which operate with exemptions from many local regulations, and are free from many of the regulations that apply to public schools.

Similarly, it is argued that such competition has helped in higher education, with publically funded universities directly competing with private universities for tuition money provide by the Government, such as the GI Bill and the Pell Grant in the United States.

Since the beginning of research the United States has funded the XM-291 gun project with USD 4, 000, 000, basic research with USD 300, 000, and applied research with USD 600, 000.

There is a national public radio and television company Yleisradio ( Yle ), which is funded by television license fees, and two major private media companies, Alma Media and Sanoma, with national TV channels.

Pioneers such as Horace Ové had been working in 1970s ( Pressure, 1975, funded by the British Film Institute ), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Babylon ( 1980 ), Burning an Illusion ( 1981 ), Majdhar ( 1985 ) and Ping Pong ( 1986-one of the first films about Britain's Chinese community ).

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

As civil authority rapidly deteriorated, with random acts of violence and theft breaking out across the country, members of the nobility, fearing for their safety, fled to neighboring countries ; many of these émigrés, as they were called, funded counter-revolutionary causes within France and urged foreign monarchs to offer military support to a counter-revolution.

American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.

Scheuering writes that Singer cut ties with Moon, and is funded by foundations and oil companies.

The city promotes a meat-free day on Thursdays called Donderdag Veggiedag with vegetarian food being promoted in public canteens for civil servants and elected councillors, in all city funded schools, and promotion of vegetarian eating options in town ( through the distribution of " veggie street maps ").

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

With the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $ 1. 7 million a year in the 1960s.

The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.

These departments are funded through the annual budget, as is the governor's salary of A $ 181, 555.

The Technical Cooperation Fund is funded by voluntary contributions with a general target in the $ 85 million range.

The current John Sealy Hospital was completed in 1978 at a cost of $ 32. 5 million and was funded in full by the Sealy & Smith Foundation.

* Northern's multi-purpose student events center, funded in part by a $ 2 million donation by 1971 alumnus John Berry, opened in 1999 and is the home of the Northern Michigan University hockey and men's and women's basketball teams.

It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $ 1, 000 loan from Hefner's mother.

Some critics have claimed that its BanksterUSA site has received $ 200, 000 in funding from the Open Society Institute, the charity with ties to investor George Soros, but its BanksterUSA project was not funded by OSI.

The $ 3. 2 million construction project is funded by the EU and is expected to take six months to complete.

On August 14, 2012, the campaign was funded at $ 558, 863, with an estimated release in May 2013.

In 2003, following an international human rights ruling, the provincial Conservative government gradually introduced a tax credit over 5 years, ( when it would have been fully implemented it would have been worth up to 50 % of tuition to a maximum of $ 3, 500 at any independent school in Ontario ) in order to meet the human rights norms and expand funded choice to all interested parents.

It was initially funded with $ 2. 8 million dollars to McLean from Herman K. Beebe.

The CIIR report also questioned the independence of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, referring to an article in the Washington Post which claims that the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization funded by the US government, allocated a concession of US $ 50, 000 for assistance in the translation and distribution outside Nicaragua of its monthly report, and that these funds were administered by Prodemca, a US-based organization which later published full-page adverisments in the Washington Post and New York Times supporting military aid to the Contras.

PolyGram and Working Title Films, who had funded Fargo, backed The Big Lebowski with a budget of $ 15 million.

The project was funded at 1227 % of its initial goal, with a final pledge level of $ 294, 000 on Sunday 1 July 2012.

During his tenure, the Rangers and the City of Arlington decided to replace the aging Arlington Stadium with a new publicly funded stadium, at a cost of $ 193 million, financed by Arlington residents, through a sales tax increase.

From 2000 to 2010, it financed projects which recruited and trained 3 million teachers, immunized 310 million children, funded $ 792 million in loans to 120, 000 small and medium enterprises, built or restored of 118, 000 kilometers of paved roads, built or restored 1, 600 bridges, and expanded access to improved water to 113 million people and improved sanitation facilities to 5. 8 million people.

The movie is now critically acclaimed, after initially receiving negative publicity in the West for being partially funded by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who invested $ 35 million in the movie.

These departments are funded through the normal federal budgetary process, as is the governor general's salary of CAD $ 134, 970, which will be taxed as of 2013.

All voters would be given a $ 50 publicly funded voucher ( Patriot dollars ) to donate to federal political campaigns.

One such application, ccsNet, was tested in a case study funded by the Federal Transportation Administration ( FTA ) in which the efficacy of configuration management was measured through comparing the approximately 80 % complete construction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency ( LACMTA ) 1st and 2nd segments of the Red Line, a $ 5. 3 billion rail construction project.

It was learned that not only had the CIA funded Dr. Cameron's efforts, but perhaps even more shockingly, the Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later provided another $ 500, 000 in funding to continue the experiments.