Governor Bob Taft of Ohio, a Republican, singled out Congressional leaders for blame, saying he agreed with the president that lawmakers "did not appropriate the amount that was recommended and then earmarked part of what they appropriated".
Through his foundation, India's fourth-richest man has earmarked part of his $14.9-billion fortune to improve government-run primary schools in his country's rural heartland by training teachers and upgrading the curriculum.
Among other things, a smart grid would be able to avoid outages, save energy and help other green undertakings, such as electric cars and distributed generation.Related items Smart grids: Clever, but unprincipledOct 8th 2009 Energy: Building the smart gridJun 4th 2009Governments have earmarked parts of their stimulus packages for smart grids.
In 1999, state lawmakers from Jefferson County, who are allowed by legislative tradition to control the county's ability to levy taxes, tried to earmark part of the money for their own projects, and the county balked.
On the heels of Ralph Lauren, who offered part of the sales from his $52 Pink Pony T-shirt to benefit cancer research, Tod's is earmarking part of its earnings from the sale of pink-trimmed driving moccasins (below, $325) for Cure Autism Now and Jobs for the Future.
Indeed, with a final decision on the future of certain areas of Governors Island still months away, the United States government should take this opportunity to earmark part of the island, which has a long history of use by the Army and Coast Guard, as a rest and recuperation center for troops returning from overseas combat.
On the positive side, when the EU comes and negotiates a fisheries accord, it earmarks part of the money as support for the local fishing sector, though it still needs to make sure that these supporting activities and/or projects are conducted in a participatory and transparent manner.
While a call for increased excise taxes was included, a call for earmarking part of that income for tobacco control activities was not, due to the known opposition of the Treasury to earmarking of funds.
As it happened, Avilés was just considering how best to engineer a socioeconomic change in the city by means of contemporary culture, earmarking parts of its decaying ría for a project that might have the same transforming effect that the Guggenheim had on Bilbao.
In October, a Russian admiral said that helicopter carriers the Russian Navy hopes to buy from France were earmarked, in part, for its Arctic fleet.
Martin Slaney, head of derivatives at GFT, said there was likely to be some disappointment that further funds had not been earmarked as part of a more long-term plan.
