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Marcia Brown of ACCION International, one of the Gates grantees, says that accounts designated as being for a particular purpose, such as children's school fees, are likely to be part of the product mix.Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, points out that there is often a big gap between what people say they'd like to save and what they end up saving.
Despite the Wellcome Trust's requirement that its grantees publish in open-access journals, only 70% do so.
Land-grabbers also prey on the land grantees by filing spurious legal appeals at the local courts.
The cost of contesting such appeals is often prohibitive.G.M. Khushik, a lawyer at Thatta district court in the town of Makli, tells me he has handled 109 cases involving women land grantees.
Existing grantees will receive only 90% of the cash promised to them.These cuts will speed the erosion of American supremacy in research.
When you cut research money, you can ask current grantees to do a little bit of economising, but past a certain point that would mean destroying the value of ongoing multi-year studies.What you do instead is stop initiating new research.
(About 93% of the grantees are women; the men die younger).
These eight grantees were known as the lords proprietor of Carolina, and they were free to dispose of the land as they pleased.
The grantees or intermediaries in a hierarchy of grants were not merely secular officials but were often Brahman beneficiaries who had been given grants of land in return for religious services rendered to the state.
The latter was occupied in 1633 by the Dutch, but in 1635 a Puritan settlement, named Saybrook (for Lord Say and Sele and Lord Brooke, two land grantees), was established there under the auspices of an English company.
