Word: usaid
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...support a President who regards "war as an opportunity to dish out contracts to his cronies." The Foreign Office later said "it seems perfectly fair that if American money is being used, the work goes to American companies." True, that's fair in the U.S., where the relief agency USAID requires contracts to go to U.S. groups; but British firms must vie for British aid money with foreign competitors. The stakes, argues chief executive of the British Consultants and Construction Bureau Colin Adams, are not actually that high: "These projects are a steady, long-term grind, without vast profits...
...that the U.S. government has taken initial steps toward awarding $900 million in contracts to repair and rebuild the country, contracts that will go exclusively to U.S. companies and to subcontractors from nations officially designated as friendly. Sources also tell TIME that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently held a restricted briefing for security-cleared bidders and sent out confidential requests for construction proposals. USAID had no comment...
...marketing tool: starvation," says Ben Stewart, a London-based spokesman for Greenpeace, which accuses the Bush Administration of sending GM grain to Africa to increase acceptance of GMOS and U.S. exports. U.S. officials reject the accusation. "We clearly have a major humanitarian problem," says Roger Winter, assistant administrator at USAid, which distributes U.S. food aid. "We were not aware that this suddenly was going to emerge as such a heavy impediment to a timely response in the region." The publicity surrounding the Zambian decision may actually hurt the anti-GM cause. To avoid an American challenge...
Harvard meanwhile continued to maintain yesterday that it had fulfilled its end of the contract with USAID. HIID provided assistance that USAID lauded at its time as historic, and Harvard had provided the oversight that it was responsible for, the University argued...
Woodlock strenuously questioned both whether Bloom could establish this knowledge and whether billing stubs Harvard submitted to USAID could constitute false claims...