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...general public. Vivek Kundra, the federal government's chief information officer and the site's manager, has explained that the contents are rapidly expanding. He encourages web developers to use the raw information to create new, user-friendly web applications. "With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months and years ahead," he advises on the site's homepage...
...have any money to spend. Everything was devoted to getting the Christian Broadcasting Network underway. My first year, total income was $8,000 for the whole enterprise. Second year it was $20,000. And now our income is in the $600 to $700 million range. So it does grow...
...months of operation, Farmers Best has failed to turn a profit. Beyah attributes that partly to slowed consumer spending amid the recession, as well as a need to grow awareness about his venture. He is running ads on black radio stations, hoping to lure affluent blacks, who are likely to shop more frequently and not just at the top of the month, which is when customers who rely on government assistance to buy food receive their aid. Meanwhile, he regularly invites local students into the store. "We're trying to teach the children how to eat properly," he says. Despite...
...about this, except what a common layperson reads in the New York Times," she also told the litigators that "I hope none of you assumed ... that my lack of knowledge of any of the intimate details of your dispute meant I was not a baseball fan. You can't grow up in the South Bronx without knowing about baseball." (Read about the 1994 baseball strike...
...projects that hospital funding for Medicare, which provides health care for 45 million Americans, will run dry by 2017--two years sooner than predicted just a year ago. Social Security's trust fund will go broke in 2037, four years ahead of schedule. Analysts warn that the picture may grow bleaker as mounting unemployment slashes tax revenues that fund the entitlements, which already eat up a third of federal spending...