• In areas like Dolow that may prove to be relatively straightforward, but the real struggle is to push aid - in the vast quantities now required - into regions controlled by al-Shabab.

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  • Standley returned to Rite-Aid as a consultant for Rite-Aid in July 2008, he served as CFO and chief administrative officer between December 1999 and August 2005, and was appointed COO in September 2008.

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  • The last time a famine was declared in Somalia - or anywhere else according to some aid organisations - was in 1992.

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  • Providing excessive and non-sustainable recovery assistance to southern Mozambique will reawaken a culture of aid-dependency in a region that was finally beginning to break free from it.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • With 17, 000 or so local and foreign aid-workers in Darfur trying to help the victims, the relief operation is still the largest of its kind in the world.

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  • Inside, it's a little more tense, as lines of students queue up - financial aid applications in hand - to negotiate how they're going to pay for their education.

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  • These dangers were highlighted during the last western food-aid programme, in 1991-92.

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  • After a year on the road as a technician - basically a driver qualified in first aid - the trainee paramedic gets just six weeks in the classroom, followed by a few week's experience in hospital.

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  • He steadily worked toward his goal of reforming the student financial system and played a valuable role in nearly every major federal student-aid program in our nation's history, from Pell Grants in 1972 to the Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grants for high-achieving low-income students in 2006.

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  • The purpose of the fund is to improve airport operations and grants-in-aid from the fund help improve the safety, efficiency and noise compatibility of a wide-range of airports, from the largest airports in the country to certain privately-owned reliever airports.

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  • But that may require the International Monetary Fund - which operates programmes of short-term loans to aid countries in immediate financial difficulties - to change some of the conditions of its lending, which have in the past endorsed financial orthodoxy.

    BBC: Attacking world poverty

  • In the year 2010-11, Spain cut its aid budget - the sixth largest in Europe - by nearly a third.

    BBC: Eurozone crisis causes aid cuts to poor, report says

  • In-kind food aid peaked in 2000, when there were large surpluses and low prices for cereals.

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  • They're usually designed with a school's financial-aid formula in mind and ask 20 or more questions.

    WSJ: The New College-Cost Calculators: Are They Accurate?

  • These stories also generally include 3 key types of supporters who appear to aid the leader-in-training.

    FORBES: Great Leaders Don't Do It Alone . . . They Get Help

  • From there he was extremely active, visiting flattened villages, overwhelmed hospitals and aid-distribution centres in addition to co-ordinating the response.

    ECONOMIST: This time the president knew what he had to do

  • The few aid organisations in-country report a big rise in people taking to the hills to forage for wild foods.

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  • They rapidly set up first-aid clinics in three main centres, as well as a hospital in Rostaq, the centre of the earlier earthquake.

    ECONOMIST: Afghanistan

  • Sudan is letting investors export 70% of the crop, even though it is the recipient of the largest food-aid operation in the world.

    ECONOMIST: Buying farmland abroad

  • The humanitarian aid system is failing children, warns the report, which calls for a major overhaul in aid to education in conflict-affected countries.

    UNESCO: Conflict is robbing 28 million children of a future, UNESCO report warns | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • The knock-down price was in aid of charity - following a plea for help from Julien's old school, Twynyrodyn Infants.

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  • The WFP's ability to mitigate the impact of rising food prices has also been hampered by a significant decrease in the past five years of supplies of "in-kind food aid" - food produced abroad and delivered to vulnerable people in emergencies.

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  • As the chief policeman for unfair state aid in the 27-country EU, he will also play a decisive role in the overhaul of troubled Spanish banks and the setting up of a new, powerful banking supervisor for the euro zone.

    WSJ: Economics Guru Jumps

  • Part of the problem, according to those who are fighting for stricter short-selling rules, is that brokerages and their stock loan desks aid in naked short-selling by looking the other way or by purposefully misrepresenting the availability of stock to borrow, reaping fees for services they haven't actually provided.

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  • Such an effort might seek to link future Western taxpayer-funded credits and aid flows to progress in curtailing in-country proliferation operations.

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  • KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A Japanese aid worker who was abducted in east-central Afghanistan has been found dead, a local government official said Wednesday.

    CNN: Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan found dead

  • The government of Wuxi, the city where Suntech is headquartered, has come to Suntech's aid in the past -- and appears to be taking an even more active role in the company with the appointment earlier this week of a new president, Zhou Weiping, who previously worked for the government-backed Wuxi Guolian Development Co.

    CNN: Top solar panel maker goes bankrupt

  • We soon became involved in the Christmas celebrations when Salvation Army leader Captain Eric Buchanan - having learnt about my former aid work on a council estate in Bath - drew me into the first of many Sally Christmases.

    BBC: Comfort in a cold climate

  • This is partly because the combined bank is obliged under European state-aid rules to shrink its balance-sheet in return for the help it has received from the government.

    ECONOMIST: Germany's looming credit crunch

  • Offering stress management workshops within company walls is a good start, but it can be viewed as a band-aid approach if there is not buy-in from management which has expressed the intention to truly address the workplace stressors within the workplace culture.

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