The main method of refuse disposal for school and homes was open dumping, and the main method of sewage disposal for both school and homes was pit latrines, which were dirty and poorly maintained.
Mr. DeGroote added industrial waste disposal and school bus companies in Canada and the United States, then sold the trucking division.
One recent afternoon at Pace University, for example, fellows who will be teaching in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn were using wireless laptop computers -- tools they will almost surely not have at their disposal in schools that sometimes still lack Internet connections -- to find Web sites that offer lesson plans.
"In response to requests from governors, I also laid out the flexibilities at the disposal of schools to ensure that they stayed open.
Thus, in order to realize girls' empowerment hence gender equality, emphasis should be given for the need of girls' preparedness for menarche and sanitary disposal facilities at school and at a community level.
Schools where disposal has been approved include the Winchcombe school, a state primary in Newbury, Berkshire, where a 1.6-acre playing field was put on sale with outline planning permission for housing.
The DfE later added that of the 21 approved for disposal, 14 were of schools that had closed, four were sites that became surplus when existing schools amalgamated, one was surplus marginal grassland on the school site and the proceeds were invested in the school library and better sports changing facilities.
But they showed little confidence in their own ability to grasp opportunities or combat threats.The deans have few levers at their disposal to reorganise their schools or cut costs: more than 80% of their bills go on academic salaries.
The education secretary, Michael Gove, has approved of the disposal of more than 20 school playing fields since the coalition came to power two years ago, despite a pledge to protect sports pitches from development.
The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of Ph.D.'s, middle school students and anyone else who likes to spend time in front of a small screen.
