I am voting "no," because it's time to tell the PSC, CUNY and Governor Cuomo that it is not okay to finance hundred million dollar developments in Buffalo while CUNY teachers scrounge the money for a metro card.
He was the financial point man during the unification of East and West Germany, overseeing West Germany's program to quickly integrate the East by unifying the currency on terms favorable to the East and channeling tens of billion dollars in development aid to help development in the Eastern half of the country.
Nevertheless, a senior Israeli negotiator, Uri Savir, approached Ross in 1995 "to say that a man named Marc Rich was prepared to generate several billion dollars for development in the West Bank, but he had some problems with the United States government and needed some help for easing restrictions on travel".
Huang called the new card "insane," adding that the performance was "almost irresponsible," perhaps referring, in part, to the "several billion dollar," two-year research and development process he says went into the project.
They hope to raise half a billion dollars on another development project, Silvercup West, which would at least double the size of their studio space.
"If it wasn't beneficial, why would the US government be investing a billion dollars in its development?" raises a slightly hollow laugh from the audience.
Ten years ago, Portland pioneered the return of the streetcar, an effort that has since helped generate several billion dollars in private development, including office space, condos and affordable housing.
Brett Schaffter, an agent with the Bosa Development Corporation, a Canadian company that has built nine residential towers in and around downtown, estimated that the park, projected by city officials to spur half a billion dollars in other development in the region, brought in closer to $3.5 billion.
Since the overthrow of the Taliban government by American and international forces in 2001, India has poured about a billion dollars' worth of development aid into Afghanistan, including the construction of the new Afghan Parliament and several major electricity and road projects.
While antibodies are very efficient, their cost-effectiveness has always been discussed owing to their high costs, accumulating to more than one billion dollars from preclinical development through to market approval.
