Granting that it had had its IPO in 1997 and was already successful by any measure, that still represents years of hard work required to get Amazon to the point where it could grow into what we now know, and that doesn't even include the thinking and planning and gestating that comes before the formal founding of any company.
Mr. Markey's campaign has been so concerned that voters will take his election for granted that it has resorted to pointing to internal Republican poll numbers to suggest the race is closer than it seems, hoping this will rev up its field workers and keep a steady stream of money flowing in.
Today, the demographic created by the one-child policy — four grandparents and two parents who focus all their attention on one child — is referred to as the "4:2:1 problem". I was so used to taking the "little emperor" concept for granted that it had not occurred to me the original one-child generation had already grown up.
On the contrary, they unanimously took for granted that it had a unique ratio, common to all the items belonging to the category.
Never mind that both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, are investigating the company's stock option grants, that it has not filed a financial statement with regulators since June, that its founder resigned, that the Nasdaq may soon delist its shares and that its business seems to be faltering.
If it does not, Save Ellis Island will have to return $512,000 in grants that it has already received to restore 30 buildings and repurpose them for public benefit, Ms. McAlpin said, and work on current projects will be suspended.
He said that the foundation, on the other hand, was established to underwrite research and to make grants, but that it has yet to begin those efforts because it lacks resources.
In the weeks that followed, the organization says, the mayor effectively killed several federal grants that it had received for years, including $35,000 for youth recreation and $100,000 to help homeless families living in its shelter, Harmony House.
One of the key issues in an uproar over grantmaking that has roiled Texas's $3 billion cancer research fund receded yesterday when the agency's board approved $39 million in research grants that it had set aside earlier this year.
But there is a purely aesthetic delight to be had from a good short story, even if you grant that it first has to satisfy at the basic level of subject matter.
To assist it in its endeavors, Arch Grants today announced that it has secured a $150K donation from Peabody Energy (the largest private-sector coal company in the world).
