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Commanders on the ground draw their money from CERP (Commander's Emergency Response Program) funds. CERP funds are meant to cover everything from condolence payments to water and electricity infrastructure improvements. They also can give out micro-grants to neighborhood patrol and checkpoint contracts. The CERP budget for fiscal year 2007 was $750 million and while no cutbacks are expected for 2008 the money hasn't been authorized yet by Congress, which means the army's top brass is playing it safe and tightening its belt. According to Lt. Col. Gerry Messmer, A U.S. civil military operations officer in Baghdad...
...about $150,000, to rebuild. Lt. Spainhour explains that big money is very hard to get, but that supplies and humanitarian assistance might be available. Spainhour's superior, Captain Douglas Willig, says the U.S. military can offer about $1,000 per family for claims money; he can offer them micro-grants to start small businesses; and he has two construction packs for a school and a marketplace each worth about $20,000. "I want to help you help your village for the future," Willig tells the sheikh. "The most important thing is you coming to talk to us about your...
...conformity win the day. The media’s obsession with minutiae like laughs and wardrobe choices guarantees that even the tiniest misstep will be recorded, documented, and analyzed by Wonkette et al. It’s no wonder that campaign managers have become savvy calculators of risk micro-management. All this tiptoeing around really means, however, is that at the ballot box we’ll be forced to choose between two equally shallow cardboard cutouts. What we need is a candidate with fire and drive, somebody respectful of America’s ideals and seasoned politically, yet bold...
These dragonflies—which Shang said have a wingspan of about 3 centimeters—are part of the broad category of micro air vehicles that Shang described as “small, maneuverable things to go into dangerous situations...
...addition, Romney will support moderate Muslim states with a new type of Marshall Plan, which will ensure our allies in the Middle East have adequate public schools, micro-credit and banking, the rule of law, competitive economic policies, and human rights...