For $41 million — what Citibank paid to sponsor the program for five years — our city bikes became Citi Bikes.
Another vote of confidence is a pledge from the Swiss watch company Vacheron Constantin to sponsor the program for the next three years.
"Our goal is to get the kids on the water for the first time, to get them out fishing," said Tom Melton, managing editor of The Fisherman, a weekly publication that has sponsored the program for 19 years.
The building is one of 155 new federal courthouses being developed throughout the country under the Design Excellence program, "where a nationally recognized lead designer works in collaboration with a local firm that knows the ins and outs of the terrain," said Edward Feiner, chief architect for the federal General Services Administration, which sponsors the program.
Turned out I was a top reader, and along with several other kids was honored on the field at Yankee Stadium (the Yankees have sponsored the program for many years).
The network is an example of the growing ardor among major advertisers for sponsoring video programming on Web sites, particularly as more American homes get fast broadband Internet connections.
Mr. Bonilla portrayed the inspector general's characterization of such witnesses as "known or suspected terrorists" as alarmist, saying that they were "former" terrorists who had cooperated extensively with the government and were sponsored for the program by an investigative agency, usually the F.B.I., and had undergone "an intensive vetting process" for public safety reasons.
During the Henry A. Hill Lecture, Robert Ford, associate commissioner for sponsored programs at the Louisiana Board of Regents and a professor of chemistry at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, focused on the status of African Americans in science and engineering, other black professional societies, existing models for collaboration, and challenges for the future.
The research projects in the HDP were based in the community, and requests for application to obtain grants sponsored by the program required partnerships between social/behavioral scientists and biomedical scientists.
The two other panel members will be DR. NORMA M. ALLEWELL, a biochemist and associate vice president for sponsored programs and technology transfer at Harvard, and DR. MARY JANE OSBORN, head of microbiology at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
International distribution is a dicey business for sponsored programs and prominent product placement.
