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...Matous is referring to a $28 million contract to upgrade the Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Plant, a city-owned facility that recycles sewage sludge and yard clippings into lawn fertilizer. The city desperately needed to upgrade its 1980s-built anaerobic digesters (you can see the foam insulation chipping off) and now has the money to do so, thanks to a 30-year interest-free loan from the federal stimulus package. To get the project funded, the city applied to the Texas Water Development Board, which had been handed stimulus money by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...party and stitches them together out of chronological order. First, Greenberg gets insulted, or so he thinks, by an old friend Eric (Humpday's Mark Duplass) whom he used to be in a band with until their big break was squashed by Greenberg's refusal to sign a record contract. Then he hears Beth is recently separated. A lightbulb goes on in his head - she might be interested in him again - and he seeks her out, suggests they have a drink sometime. Baumbach wants us to see that from Greenberg's narcissistic perspective, nothing happened at the party except...
Despite the priority Shaheen places on those objectives, money is the main driver for a bigger tournament. The NCAA is finishing up the eighth year of an 11-year, $6 billion contract with CBS, which broadcasts the tournament. After this season, the NCAA can opt out of the deal and seek new television partners. Knowing that they might not be able to secure a hefty rights fee for a new deal in a shaky economy, the extra games could secure additional revenue for the schools - NCAA members share the tournament revenue whether they play or not, so more games enlarges...
...vivid display last week. There was an uproar over Bing's emerging plan to relocate residents - the weekly Michigan Citizen likened it to a "modern day 'Trail of Tears' for Detroiters" - and an equally unfavorable response to Bobb's $81,000 raise in the second year of his contract, most of which is paid for by foundation money. The school board is so incensed that it has filed a lawsuit...
...Despite the vehement statements of those denouncing the deal - and the veiled threats of retaliation - most observers say the chances of the spat jumping from the defense sector to wider commercial deals are small at most. Military contracts have historically been so vulnerable to protectionism and national preferences that they aren't covered by World Trade Organization rules. For that reason, says Nicole Bacharan, a specialist on U.S.-European affairs at Stanford University, "the way this contract was handled wasn't any different from how it would be handled in any other country - especially one whose defense industry...