An initial infusion of $4.0 billion was given at the end of 2008, and remaining disbursements were doled out in January and February.
Moreover, the administrative budget often excludes trust funds used to finance contributory old-age and unemployment insurance; taxes are paid directly into the funds and disbursements made out of them.
The money was paid in two disbursements of US$50,000, one in 1998 and one in 1999.
According to Aigler's reports total athletic receipts were $148,000 against disbursements of $155,000.
Even after paying out significant disbursements to beneficiaries, the plan has grown to $16 billion in assets and is more than $1.4 billion overfunded.
Some tribes pay out casino profits in per-capita disbursements, which can be substantial; the Chumash Indians of California, for example, reportedly received $428,969 apiece in 2005.
Precisely because a project is accountable for a single or limited number of outcomes and can ignore broader development objectives, it can operate in an 'insulated' environment and 'buy out' local constraints and uncertainties regarding disbursement bottlenecks and onerous bureaucratic controls [ 52].
Time is running out to clinch a deal and get further disbursements approved by EU national parliaments, some of which have appeared reluctant to offer Greece much budget slack, before the bailout program expires.
"If companies believe that they may lose out to their competitors in receiving Byrd Amendment cash disbursements if they do not support trade cases, it's obvious what they will do–support trade cases," Kopenhaver says.
But Mr. Blankenhorn said the key to carrying out the 2040 plan lay not in the disbursement of federal dollars, but in winning over the public.
