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...above market rates. But further growth could stall. Corn ethanol in the U.S. - which many environmentalists believe doesn't deserve the term "renewable" - has cratered, also hurt by rapidly falling gas prices. Most of all, however, clean tech businesses generally lack the political weight to jostle for the bailout funds won by older and bigger industries like the automobile manufacturers. "It's just tough for them to be heard," says Steve Sawyer, the director general of the Global Wind Energy Council...
...need to get a set-top digital-to-analog converter box in order to keep receiving your episodes of Gary Unmarried. It costs about $50. The government feels bad about making you do this, so it is distributing $40 coupons to help bankroll your upgrade. Call it the analog bailout...
...BILLION Second half of the U.S. government's $700 billion TARP bailout...
...Washington Bailout Bonanza Despite criticism that the distribution of the first $350 billion from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) lacked transparency, the Senate voted 52-42 to release the remaining bailout funds. The same day, House Democrats unveiled an even larger stimulus plan that would funnel money to local governments, fund infrastructure development and provide middle-class tax cuts. Britain, meanwhile, announced a bank-bailout plan as the European Commission predicted the loss of 3.5 million jobs in the European Union...
...that at least 500 sq. ft. (45 sq m) of their 2,500-sq.-ft. (230 sq m) home was devoted to Carole's business. That would allow the couple to write off 20% of the upkeep and utilities expenses as well as local property taxes. (See TIME's bailout report card...