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funds and subsidize
The opportunity exists for states to reserve some of their vocational education funds to apply on an ad hoc flexible basis to subsidize any local preemployment training programs that may be quickly set up in a community to aid a new industrial plant.
Likely, the failure of this campaign showed Władysław the limits of royal power in Poland, as major factors for the failure included significant autonomy of the military commanders, which did not see Władysław as their superior, and lack of funds for the army, as the Polish parliament ( sejm ) refused to subsidize the war.
The national government funds the federal hospitals and subsidize health care with petrodollar revenues.
Then combined with his own funds to subsidize the construction of a university campus.
Snohomish County has adopted the policy of not spending funds to subsidize airlines or to pay for the infrastructure needed to support commercial air service.
While exchanges must pay for the cost of transporting goods within the continental United States, Congress appropriates funds to subsidize the transportation costs of American merchandise to overseas exchange locations so that such items are available and affordable to personnel stationed overseas.
Directly, it has been reported that the majority of universities subsidize their intercollegiate athletic programs out of general funds, thus funneling money that could be used for educational pursuits into sports.
The Government has no constitutional duty to subsidize an activity merely because it is constitutionally protected, and may validly choose to allocate public funds for medical services relating to childbirth but not to abortion.

funds and heavy
Moreover, those failing to do their duty are expected to make up planting requirements, provide funds equivalent to the value of labor required or pay heavy fines.
Some heavy metro infrastructures were built in Brussels, Antwerp and the Charleroi area, but these are currently used by light rail vehicles, and their conversion to full metro is not envisaged at present due to lack of funds.
Many funds ceased trading during the Recession of 1969 – 70 and the 1973 – 1974 stock market crash due to heavy losses.
However, because of heavy spending from the trust funds, including some wasteful foreign investment activities, the government is now facing virtual bankruptcy.
Desperate for cash because of heavy debts incurred in London in the early postwar period, the Colorados lacked a source of funds except through the sale of the state's vast holdings, which comprised more than 95 percent of Paraguay's total land.
To help capitalize the company, former President Vicente Fox brought forward the possibility of making shares of Pemex available to Mexican citizens and pension funds, to complement a current project-specific investment setup known as " Proyectos de Inversión Diferida En El Registro del Gasto " ( Deferred Investment Projects in the Expenditure Registry ); this proposal, along with alleviating Pemex's heavy tax burden and a substantial budget increase, have met opposition in Congress.
Genom funds the AD Police, an autonomous police force split off the regular police, tasked with responding to rogue boomer incidents with heavy weaponry and powered exoskeletons.
After the KSC took control of the country, the industrial sector — particularly defense and heavy industry — received priority in terms of investment funds, labor, and materials.
A document from the seventeenth century entitled " Advice for the Conclavist " describes the duties and rewards of the practice: conclavists were expected to care for the physical needs of the cardinal elector ( e. g. making his bed and warming his food ), gather information, spread disinformation, carry a heavy purse for distributing funds to minor conclave servants in exchange for information, possess wine and food in his cell for entertaining, and carry disguises for himself and his boss so they could move from cell to cell unrecognized.
Among the issues brought up by the party prior to nomination day were: the heavy influx of foreigners into Singapore, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan's mismanagement of the Youth Olympic Games and the loss of sinking funds in the PAP run town councils in Holland-Bukit Timah and Bukit Panjang.
The lower classes of England were quick to catch on to Lollard ideas, especially about disbursing Church funds to aid people in need and to ease lower class financial stresses caused by heavy taxation.
This fund () is fed mainly by a kilometre-based tax on heavy goods vehicles, as well as part of the taxes on gasoline originally intended for road building and a minor part of VAT funds.
In 2003, under heavy pressure from the preparation of the Hutton Inquiry, the BBC refused to show Crick's report for Newsnight into ' Betsygate ', the alleged misuse of public funds by the private office of former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith and supposed payments to his wife Betsy for work she did not do.
Individual states are encouraged to focus federal funds on improving the efficiency and safety of this network which makes up 4 % of the nation's roads, but carries 40 % of the traffic and 75 % of heavy truck traffic.
Such armament packages, giving decidedly heavy armament to small or primarily transport helicopters, have become popular among second and third world countries who lack the funds for dedicated attack helicopters.

funds and rail
The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.
The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 provided $ 375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states and created the Urban Mass Transit Administration ( now the Federal Transit Administration ).
He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks from East Dundee to the area and built an iron bridge with his own funds to accommodate the rail line.
, federal funds have been allocated for a Wachusett commuter rail station planned for Westminster.
In 2009 a trial removal of spoil by rail was carried out and this has continued periodically during 2011 as funds become available ; completion is anticipated in March 2013.
A local group ( Walkway Over The Hudson ) raised the funds to convert the bridge into a unique linear park connecting rail trails on both side of the Hudson River.
The capital funds surplus has resulted in projects, such as a new US $ 100 million Breeze Card fare collection system and US $ 1. 1 million automatic toilets in the MARTA Five Points station, occurring at the same time that MARTA is struggling to pay for bus and rail operations.
* Allocates portion of these funds for: school bus safety ; clean air programs ; highway improvements ; mass transit improvements including bus purchase, commuter and light rail expansion.
The advantage of this is that commuter rail operators do not have to spend funds on building high-level platforms ; a low-level platform is all that is necessary, at a far lower cost.
The authority also partially funds sixteen municipal bus operators and a wide array of transportation projects including bikeways and pedestrian facilities, local roads and highway improvements, goods movement, Metrolink regional commuter rail, Freeway Service Patrol and freeway call boxes within the greater metropolitan Los Angeles region.
761, the " San Joaquin Valley Transportation Enhancement Act ", which would give the State of California the option to redirect federal high speed rail funds to finance improvements to Highway 99.
At the same time, a previously little-known group called the Bus Riders Union sued the city — on the basis of racial discrimination — over diversion of funds from buses to Red Line construction, and managed to force it into a ten-year consent decree in 1996 that eviscerated MTA funding for the construction of subway and light rail projects.
San Joaquin County funds its $ 2. 32 million contribution from a half-cent transportation sales tax ( 30 % of the tax adopted in 1990 and renewed in 2006 is allocated to bus, bicycle, rail, and pedestrian programs.
However a small group of rail enthusiasts formed the Wight Locomotive Society and raised funds to preserve one of the last steam locomotives, W24 Calbourne, and a number of the remaining carriages.
The state's efforts towards high speed rail between 2000 and 2005 put Florida ahead of the field in terms of the level of planning already completed, and this proved to be a major factor in winning the funds.
Florida was projected to receive as much as $ 342. 3 million of the reallocated rail funds which would have closed the gap of the entire projected cost of project.
Under the AusLink program introduced in July 2004, the Australian Government has introduced the opportunity for rail to gain access to funds on a similar basis to that of roads.
White to save the community from isolation by constructing an independent rail line that would have connected Montague with Bowie proved unsuccessful due to a lack of funds.
On October 10, 1988, Congress approved $ 5 million in funds to preserve land along the proposed light rail corridor.
On December 10, 2010, the Department of Transportation reallocated $ 1. 2 billion in federal high speed rail funding from states that had rejected the stimulus funds, including Wisconsin and Ohio.
Following the return of funds, the federal government redirected the $ 145 million intended for Wisconsin and Ohio to the State of Washington's high-speed rail corridor.
" The list omitted any requests for funds for two shovel ready projects: The Anaheim Station and Transbay Terminal extension in San Francisco, which would also serve as a key connection for transit riders arriving from the East Bay, following the decision to align the rail line through the South Bay and Pacheco Pass rather than the East Bay and Altamont Pass.

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