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ExxonMobil spokesman Kevin Allexon told TIME that the company "shares concerns about the challenge of meeting the winter heating needs of those who cannot afford the cost." But "it is our view that government programs to assist low-income families with their heating-oil requirements are the best way to address these needs." Allexon is referring specifically to LIHEAP, the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. It is supposed to provide about $5 billion in home-heating-fuel aid, but in recent years it has seen only half that. President Bush even tried to reduce fiscal 2009 LIHEAP funding...
Most of it, of course, has to do with Jobs himself, who has battled pancreatic cancer for four years and has been looking particularly gaunt since the summer. A spokesman said Jobs would not be giving the Macworld keynote because Apple was severing ties with the event, which is run by IDG, an outside publishing company. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
...When Harvard’s endowment value suffers significant setbacks, the Divinity School’s chief source of revenue is vulnerable to uncertainty, and we need to plan accordingly,” said Jonathan G. Beasley, a Divinity School spokesman...
...keep the [Farnum] Senior Center, even if it’s not at full capacity, than rather to be doing homeland security work in Everett,” Decker said. “The information and facts the city council is provided with is unclear.” CHA spokesman Doug M. Bailey acknowledged Decker’s concerns, saying “everyone’s frustrated and I understand the frustration, but we’ve been engaging in intense discussions and negotiations with [various governmental offices], and we expect to have more avenues for community input...
Groups opposed to Obama's immigration-reform effort have taken little solace in the stepped-up enforcement efforts, in part because the Obama Administration is not aggressively seeking to deport those workers who are fired for fraudulent paperwork. "Effective enforcement is pretty much past tense," says Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a conservative group that opposes giving current undocumented residents a path to legalization. "The illegal workers are clearly allowed to remain in the country...