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...government's most recent pork purchase comes just a few weeks after the National Pork Producers Council and a consortium of governors from nine pork-producing states sent separate letters to the Agriculture Secretary requesting assistance. The council asked the USDA to lift the $300 spending cap on pork products for government food programs, and to spend at least an additional $150 million on pork products during fiscal year 2009; the industry also asked for $100 million to help survey herds for H1N1. In a similar letter from state governors, lawmakers requested that the government urge overseas markets to start...
...faculty. Yale will continue to conduct searches for researchers specializing in neuroscience, cancer, and cardiovascular disease since “outstanding laboratory facilities are in place,” but at the same time, the university will cut spending related to these labs by over 25 percent, the letter said. During the past year, two prominent medical researchers departed Harvard for Yale, recruited as part of Yale’s aggressive expansion into cutting-edge fields. Former Harvard Medical School Professor David A. Hafler was appointed chair of Yale’s neurology department, and Thomas J. Lynch...
Palin, Sarah • dinner with is being auctioned off on eBay, where jet acquired by previous Alaska governor was claimed to have been sold by but actually wasn't • letter to President Obama basically urging him to make sure Afghanistan becomes his Vietnam is co-signed...
...index fell roughly 28 percent during the period addressed by Mendillo’s letter, while peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service saw a softer median loss of 18.2 percent...
...political foes in South Carolina did not hold back. "I hope the people of South Carolina will show their disdain for that," said Representative Jim Clyburn, the majority whip, who also represents the state. "To heckle is bad enough, but to use that one word, the one three-letter word that was not allowed to be used in my house while I was growing up, is beyond the pale...