It's the "most ambitious financial aid program in America," Gov. Gray Davis has noted.
The training effort, which began in October and has already cost $500 million, was conceived of as the largest component of a mission billed as the most ambitious American aid effort since the Marshall Plan.
The tuna industry here barely existed until the late 1980's when the United States led Japan, Italy and other donor nations in an ambitious foreign aid program aimed at rebuilding the Philippines after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Weeks before it is to begin, an ambitious American aid plan to counter militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas is threatened by important unresolved questions about who will monitor the money and whether it could fall into the wrong hands, according to American and Pakistani officials and analysts familiar with the plan.
The move, announced on Monday, halts one of President Hugo Chávez's most ambitious foreign aid projects — and one that allowed him to poke at the Bush administration, which had proposed a cut in funds for heating assistance to the poor.
Ambitious UK aid plan delivers strong, measurable results for the world's poorest NEW YORK, USA, 20 July 2012 – More than 12 million children have been vaccinated against preventable diseases, 6 million people have received emergency food assistance, and 5.3 million children have secured schooling.
Khoury, editor of the cultural supplement of the Beirut daily newspaper An-Nahar and a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, takes a technically ambitious approach, aided by Peter Theroux's luminous translation from the Arabic.
The book is ambitious, encompassing Aids, autism and 9/11, but it's best when dealing with details, like the involuntary, guilty way Jules weighs the value of her life against those of her friends.
