Money earmarked for Olympic training is often mysteriously sidelined, facilities for training are in poor shape and equipment goes missing.
The Mountain Brook City Schools district started a private foundation five years ago that now has $5 million earmarked for technology training and integration, said Sharon Mumm, technology coordinator at Brookwood Forest.
Putin dismissed the cost of the Russian military campaign in Syria, which "does not involve any serious strain on the budget," he said, adding that the funds "earmarked for military training and exercises" were "retargeted" to the operation in Syria.
The $223 million in federal grants are earmarked for job training and summer jobs programs in 36 low-income areas, as well as initiatives to encourage young people to stay in school and prepare for college.
It was renamed the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in 1998, when George Lindemann, a telecommunications entrepreneur, and his wife, Frayda, made a $10 million gift to the Met's endowment campaign, earmarked for the training program.
Under the Mérida Initiative, launched in 2008, it sends about $500m a year to Mexico and Central America, earmarked for military, training, and governance purposes a tiny fraction of the amount of money American consumers send to Mexico as part of the multibillion-dollar drug trade.
Ford Motor Co.'s generous gift to the National Audubon Society was earmarked for teacher training in Latin America and scientific bird monitoring in the U.S., not to lobby on Western grazing and logging issues as the reader was led to believe.
The Royal Marines Division were earmarked for Hardboiled, trained in mountain warfare, and given cold weather equipment.
