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CIDA’s students come largely from rural areas, and nearly all live in poverty. The demand for places at CIDA is huge—10,000 to 15,000 applications are submitted annually for 400 to 500 seats, according to Blecher...
Paku, who has relatives involved with timber operations in New Zealand, said that the forest industry there, which is fueled to a large extent by Asian demand, has lately been difficult...
...work Roberts had done on behalf of environmental interests in Reid's home state of Nevada. Interest groups, having raised millions in anticipation of war, quickly returned to fighting over Karl Rove. The closest thing to a battle plan that Senate liberals could come up with was to demand internal Justice Department documents they almost certainly will not get. Democrats were reduced to hoping they might hit some political pay dirt by scrutinizing what Roberts had written about the reach of the Constitution's interstate-commerce clause, which has figured in environmental and workplace regulation as well as civil rights...
...They were not looking for Nobel Prize winners. Although Graham wasn’t able to recruit very many Nobel Prize Winners, there wasn’t actually that much demand for super brainiacs. The women wanted to know the heights of the donors, if they had musical abilities, and their family health history. Brains were only one of the characteristics they valued. Although he was forced to recruit other donors because of a lack of supply, Graham was a businessman and quickly realized that having other kinds of donors was a good marketing move. The biggest attraction...
...Caribbean, the trend is catching on. Last year courses outside of North America were opening at a rate of more than one a day, on average, ranging in construction cost from Barnbougle's bargain $2 million to luxurious $50 million projects in places like Barbados. "There's a great demand from golfers looking for new and interesting courses around the world," says Bill Hogan, president of Wide World of Golf (WWG), a purveyor of luxury golf trips. "They've done Scotland and Ireland, and now they want something new, so they're reaching out to places like China, Sweden...