As public and private financing has continued to contract in the United States, and as promised donations have evaporated because of shrinking endowments, organizations like 651 Arts are struggling.
In the 1990s, Mr. Xu built up his main conglomerate, Dalian Shide, whose holdings range from home appliances to finance to building materials, by winning contracts from local officials, including a lucrative deal to provide window frames while Mr. Bo was mayor of Dalian.
"Members of Congress used earmarks to contract out their campaign financing," he said.
The academy has worked hard to turn them into rounded performers, but also gives them plenty of professional guidance en route – the acting course covers everything from fencing to finance, clowning to contracts.
The principal theory of those of my generation who believed every bit as strongly in the social contract and care for the needy as the most ardent New Dealer was that the economic pie must continue to grow to generate the revenues required to finance that contract.
At a City Hall news conference last night with Gov. George E. Pataki and Ms. Weingarten, Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that it might be difficult to finance the contract, but he insisted that the raises were the right thing to do.
But they should have thought about the sources to finance the contract when they drew it up," Sergei Stepashin, a member of the Russian Football Union executive board, told Interfax.
The CSOs and private healthcare providers were progressively given more salience as critical health stakeholders with the introduction of some forms of performance-based financing and contracting to supplement state-owned facilities.
Some labor experts say that some of that money may be used to finance a labor contract (each 1percentt wage increase in the city's payroll costs about $160 million).
Kahn borrowed heavily to finance an ambitious expansion, contracted with farmers to grow an awful lot of organic produce -- and then watched in horror as the bubble of demand subsided along with the headlines about Alar.
