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Whitty believes that a city--funded daytime shelter would solve several sheltering difficulties. "A drop-in shelter would fill an unmet need," he said. "It would provide a broad range of emergency, feeding, and support programs...
There is no doubt that the Army needs a new battlefield air-defense system. The problem with FAAD, however, is that it could collapse under its own weight, leaving this critical need unmet. Army officials conceded to a House subcommittee early this year that the final price tag could be as high as $22 billion. Warns Oregon Republican Congressman Denny Smith: "The Army is going into a $20 billion swamp. The chances are good that it can spend billions and lose another decade, and still not have an effective air-defense weapon...
...reality set in. The lenders clung tightly to their checkbooks and, pleading financial difficulties at home, asserted that the meeting was not meant to be a "pledging session." The borrowers, their request to increase development assistance by 130%, to $45 billion, and debt relief by at least $35 billion unmet, expressed disappointment. "What we hear is far from the concrete proposals we were expecting," said Niger's Ide Oumarou, secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity...
...encouraging sign for the future, according to U.N. experts, is the substantial "unmet demand" for population control among Third World residents. In a survey of 17 slowly developing countries, the U.N. found that while the average number of children per family ranged from 3.8 to 8.3, the average number of children desired was 3.7 to 4.7. The difference between desire and reality is due to the lack of available family-planning education and services...
Sallie Mae's success says Longenecher has fostered a highly competitive environment for student loans. "There are very few pockets of unmet need for secondary markets today and so you will find Sallie Mae marketing more aggressively. I'd say that now, we almost have the opposite problem almost too competitive and environment. A lot of people are trying to make the faster profits that Sallie...