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...HGCI representative. “HUDS has plenty of grease to give away and the FMO has plenty of trucks to convert,” Tchou said. The $5,500 cost to convert the diesel-guzzling truck into an enviro-friendly vehicle was footed by the Green Campus Loan Fund, but estimates show that the money spent will soon be recovered within a year and half’s time from fuel savings. Tchou is working with the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) to raise money to expand the program, which currently uses only half of Annenberg’s waste...
...Postwar countries quickly go back to war, especially in Africa. We must ensure that development contributes to peacekeeping,” she said. Development is a focus for Sirleaf, who has served as a U.N. Development Programme official and a World Bank loan officer. “Three-quarters of our people live below the poverty line—a dollar a day—and half of those live in abject poverty, with less than 50 cents per day,” Sirleaf said. She outlined a four-pillar program for Liberia: national security, effective governance, economic...
...years, a few dozen kids have been pulled out of Boston Higashi because their families failed to get public funding and couldn't afford the tuition. As the Perkinses await reimbursement from the Thompson district, money is getting tight. The family has had to take out a $90,000 loan to battle the school district. "We've spent every penny," Julie says. "We are right on the line...
...attacked him in a McDonald's on Aug. 19; in Hong Kong. Although no suspects have been named, Ho, a member of the Legislative Council and one of the city's best-known public figures, said the assault was likely related to his recent legal work involving land disputes, loan-sharking and debt collection. STEPPING DOWN. N.R. Narayana Murthy, 60, Chairman of Infosys Technologies, after 25 years at the helm of the company he helped found; in Bangalore. In 1981, Murthy and six other software engineers borrowed $250 from family members to start Infosys, today a $23 billion outsourcing giant...
...world, killed by malaria every year. He also visited a project run by non-governmental agency CARE, which helps grandmothers caring for children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The program, which Obama has personally helped finance with a donation of some $13,000, gives loans to grandmothers who can use the money to run small small businesses - selling soap, for instance - and then pay the capital back with interest. The revolving funds, known as voluntary savings and loan, should keep growing and help more and more people...