"A tax on air tickets to finance development programs already exists in some countries.
The oil boom that followed the war allowed the federal government to finance development programs and consolidate its power.
As it has done before, the company expects to finance the development program with cash flow from operations.
Boston Propertiessaid it has formed a $270 million joint venture with the New York State Common Retirement Fund, raising cash to finance a development program that includes two towers in Times Square.
But much of the hearing on Thursday focused on charges made last year by Mark D. Wallace, an ambassador at the United States mission to the United Nations, in briefings for members of Congress, news outlets, the State Department and nations that finance the development program.
If the Taliban are not more helpful, he added, he will ask the United States and other countries that are financing a development program to use that money to block drug exports.
Payments for the material will be used to finance economic development programs in the community.
Also under the bill, antihunger groups that receive food to sell to finance their development programs would have to reach a 70 percent rate of return on the sales or send a report to Congress explaining the shortfall.
After the new cabinet proclaimed that Suriname would return to democracy in two years, the Dutch government agreed to finance an emergency development program.
The Baathists used the oil money to finance a nationwide development program, which included the building of dams, irrigation projects, iron and steel factories, and petrochemical plants, as well as the construction of schools and hospitals.
Boston Properties, a real estate investment trust specializing in office properties, is close to forming a $300 million joint venture, giving it cash to finance a growing development program that includes Times Square.
