While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.

Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and inadequate funding.

Construction of this machine was never completed ; Babbage had conflicts with his chief engineer, Joseph Clement, and ultimately the British government withdrew its funding for the project.

He obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and founded the 6th Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, which was devoted to the study of history and the social sciences.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

Bamford left in 1920 and the company was revitalised with funding from Count Louis Zborowski.

For example, abeyance was used as a settlement method in a Canadian lawsuit involving the University of Victoria Students ' Society ( UVSS ), the BCCLA, and a campus pro-life to whom the UVSS denied funding to.

) This lack of new games was due in part to a lack of funding, with Atari continuing to develop most of its games for the saturated 2600 market.

An upgraded version with active radar seeker, called Active Sky Flash was proposed by BAe and Thomson-CSF, but did not receive funding because the RAF opted for other missiles.

Italy was providing $ 20 million of developmental funding as well as several millions worth material, equipment and related services.

However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.

Yet another plan, the North-South Rail Link that would have connected North and South Stations ( the major passenger train stations in Boston ), was part of the original Big Dig but was ultimately dropped by the Dukakis administration as an impediment to acquiring federal funding for the project.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

Members of Ketley's society paid a monthly subscription to a central pool of funds which was used to finance the building of houses for members, which in turn acted as collateral to attract further funding to the society, enabling further construction.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

The Institute was awarded an all-time high funding of $ 357 million in 2009.

Comorian relations with Japan were also significant because Japan was the second largest provider of aid, consisting of funding for fisheries, food, and highway development.

In the 1970s the funding Engelbart's group received from the Advance Research Project Agency ( ARPA ) was cut and many key members of Engelbart's team went to work for Xerox PARC where they continued to experiment with the mouse and keyset.

The reputation of many undergraduate degrees are also linked to the institution's graduate or research programs, which have some tangible factors for rating, such as research funding and volume, publications and citations.

The RECE ( Cuban Representation in Exile ) also receives funding from Bacardi family members.

It is said to have also received funding from the Heritage Foundation.

His constant demands for Western support and funding also earned him the nickname of " General Cash-My-Check ".

Census statistics are also used in order to apportion federal funding for many social and economic programs.

At the same time the influx of federal funding also gave rise to demands for accountability and the behavioral objectives approach of Robert F. Mager and others foreshadowed the No Child Left Behind Act passed in 2002.

Wilkins also published the highly successful Los Angeles punk humor zine Wild Times and when he ran out of funding for the zine syndicated some of the humorous material to over 100 U. S. fanzines under the name of Mystic Mark.

They also argue that binding massive amounts of investments on nuclear energy would take funding away from more effective solutions.

Rossini's estate also provided funding for the Prix Rossini, a prize to be awarded to young composers and librettist.

Hezbollah has relied also on funding from the Shi ' ite Lebanese Diaspora in West Africa, the United States and, most importantly, the Triple Frontier, or tri-border area, along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

Government funding was also reduced as a reaction to the sentiment that the IIT's were contributing to the brain drain.

Initially the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.

2002 and 2003 also saw lower figures, and in 2004 and 2005 the parade was cancelled because of funding difficulties and coordinated opposition from most of Germany's green parties.

The board agreed that, as a first step, Lyons would provide Hartree and Wilkes with £ 3, 000 funding for the EDSAC project, and would also provide them with the services of a Lyons electrical engineer, Ernest Lenaerts.

Municipalities may have the right to tax individuals and corporations with income tax, property tax and corporate income tax, but may also receive substantial funding from the state.

Registered political parties receive public funding for their operation and can also obtain private funding within the limits prescribed by the law.

While the funding of the standing army subsists on annual financial votes by parliament, the Mutiny Act is also renewed on an annual basis by parliament.

Michael Robert Milken ( born July 4, 1946 ) is an American business magnate, financier, and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ( also called " junk bonds ") during the 1970s and 1980s, for his 1990 guilty plea to felony charges for violating US securities laws, and for his funding of medical research.

When Congress prohibited further funding to the Contras, Reagan continued the funding through arms sales that were also prohibited by Congress.

The air force and navy also suffer major equipment and funding shortfalls — to the point of sometimes almost being grounded — and are both too small and poorly equipped to take part in operations overseas.

The General Assembly also adopted policies rejecting Christian Zionism and allowing the continued funding of conversionary activities aimed at Jews.