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...bright spot was freshman Greg Roop’s individual victory in 200-yard freestyle. On the scoreboard, the performance was just one small win in the midst of back-and forth-battling between the Crimson and the Lions. But his efforts provided a spark for the swimmers after him, particularly because he beat his previous in-season best by two and a half seconds...
...small crowd that had been awaiting their return—which included Khandelwal, UC representatives Daniel P. Bicknell ’13 and David Gonzalez ’11, and for short periods of time McLeod, Holoshitz, and Schwartz—dispersed shortly afterwards...
...firms in fiscal 2008, say officials. "It's a top priority of the President's, and we've worked very hard to create those opportunities," says David Hinson, director of the Commerce Department's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). Hinson points to the outreach program the MBDA and the Small Business Administration have created to "put boots on the ground" and make contract procurement easier for DBEs. He also suggests it's "a little early to draw conclusions" about the stimulus' level of minority participation...
...Most of the federal stimulus money is disbursed via states and counties, and the outlook for minorities does seem better once the dollars reach more local levels. Miami-Dade County's Public Works Department has kept its so far $25 million worth of stimulus projects relatively small, and therefore more accessible to minority contractors, to ensure its own 10% DBE participation goal. On some projects Miami-Dade has even 100% DBE involvement. For now, the county is using what stimulus money it can earmark for transit purposes to purchase a fleet of BRT (bus rapid transit) buses that will...
...size of the Indian bureaucracy, with 18 million public employees serving more than a billion people, "you can never create a foolproof system," says Ajay Behera, an assistant professor at Jamia Millia Islamia who has written extensively about regional security. But in such a porous system, he says, a small group of relatively uneducated people can organize a major operation. "Almost anyone can do anything here," Behera says. "It doesn't require that high a level of sophistication...