Fearing their own capital base could not support Merrill's flagging assets, executives at Bank of America told regulators they would need assistance in order to close the deal by their target date of Jan . 1
That event was marked by the G-7 summit meeting in Moscow on April 19-20, at which leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations and Russia committed just over $3 billion worth of international assistance to Ukraine to close the station permanently by the year 2000 and to complete reactors under construction at the Khmelnytsky and South Ukraine stations.
Obama proposed to "increase both the numbers and capabilities of our diplomats, development experts and other civilians who can work alongside our military" in places threatened by extremism; to help weak states build "independent judicial systems, honest police forces" and transparent financial systems; to double foreign assistance by 2012; to close Guantánamo and end torture.
That is why Kazakhstan has provided and continues to provide tangible humanitarian assistance to its close neighbor, sending fuel, seeds and foodstuffs.
When the European Central Bank closed off liquidity assistance to Greek banks, forcing them to close last Monday, it appeared that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble might succeed at "regime change" through fear-inducing financial panic.
One might also question whether the costs of training everyone to maintain an equal degree of care for everyone else would not be too high, and whether it would even be psychologically feasible for us to devote more time, attention, and assistance to those closest to us without also caring more about them.
UN agencies should ramp up their cross-border and cross-line assistance to Syria, in close cooperation with humanitarian organisations like ours, which have been delivering aid from neighbouring countries for nearly three years now.
Raff, "a gifted composer with an imaginative grasp of the orchestra", offered close assistance to Liszt.
5. Provide technical assistance to the MoE in close cooperation and coordination with other partners involved in development and introduction of the curriculum for child and family social workers, particularly nine months pre-qualification training curriculum.
