Through the Neediest Cases, Ms. Korsin was able to earmark money for a security deposit on Ms. Washington's next apartment, along with $860 to buy her daughters winter clothes.
Needing most of its manpower to stave off German counterattacks and secure the area around Aachen, the 1st Infantry Division was able to earmark only a single regiment for the job of taking the city.
Universities and research institutes will be able to bid for a share of £1 billion earmarked to update equipment and laboratories and for new buildings.
Without that earmark, we would not be able to measure the progress this administration has been claiming in Iraq for four years — which is precisely why the administration resisted it.
He questions an outright ban on earmarks, saying legislators should be able to say how federal money is spent.
PAGE A12 EARMARK BAN WORKAROUND Members of Congress may no longer be able to direct federal money to projects back home because of a moratorium on legislative earmarks, but that has not stopped them from trying.
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress may no longer be able to direct federal money to projects back home because of a moratorium on legislative earmarks, but that has not stopped them from trying.
They will not be able to hire expensive lawyers should they need to challenge government to know, for example, what had happened to funds earmarked for development of their community.
