But there is no more state money for new social housing: the capital grant was cut by 63% in 2010.

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The figures cover theatres that are members of Solt, which include the 52 major theatres in the capital as well as major grant-aided institutions.

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For example, access to investors and capital can improve dramatically with a patent grant.

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Moreover, once the start-up burns through that initial grant, there is little outside capital available so it must become profitable, attract an investor from outside the country, or shut down.

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Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.

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In 2010 and 2011, grant items accounted for 31.7% and 32.7% of capital funds respectively.

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The BBC's Will Grant in Mexico City says shootings in public spaces in broad daylight remain rare in the capital, which has been largely insulated from the violence seen elsewhere in the country.

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Tony Grant, president of the local chamber of commerce, says that Leeds might just become a regional European capital, spoken of in the same breath as Barcelona or Munich.

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Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco (nyse: GRP - news - people ) in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.

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