It was financed with more than $70 million worth of bonds issued by the State Legislature in 2006, and money from the University of Texas System.
By requesting the stock offering, it could shore up its finances with more than $1 billion in cash to pay for the medical costs of retirees.
The plant was partly financed with more than $600 million in loans and risk insurance obtained from the federal Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the United States Export-Import Bank.
Staff at the theatre, however, admired Fontana and supported his policy of trying to strengthen the opera house's finances with more popular offerings.
The dramatic stretching of the gap came despite continued public pessimism about the prospects for personal finances, with more people expecting their situation to worsen (29 per cent) than improve (24 per cent) over the next year.
Voters here in Tennessee said Tuesday that they had considerable anxiety about the nation's finances, with more than 8 in 10 voters saying the state of the national economy was not so good or poor.
But the project, envisioned as a hotel and office tower financed with more than $40 million from the Port Authority and nearly as much in state construction loan guarantees, did not get much farther than that.
In an election last year, financed with more than $500,000 from the American aid agency, Mr. Karzai was chosen as the chamber's vice chairman, and Mr. Farnood became chairman.
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