As transport secretary in the early 1980s, Mrs Dole hit on the idea of linking federal highway grants to raising the legal drinking age to 21. Sadly, even states that are supposed to take freedom particularly seriously, such as New Hampshire (motto: "Live free or die") decided to take the cash.
In addition, Joseph A. Wilson, a commercial real estate developer from New Jersey, has initiated the challenge grant to raise funds for Ballet Theater in the next two years.
The Fostering Network, which represents foster services and foster carers, has received a government grant to raise the number and widen the range of young people taking part in CiCCs.
States that won RTTT grants pledged to raise academic standards, develop new assessments, and use students' scores on those assessments to grade teachers, principals, and even entire schools.
It was granted authority to raise up to €440bn by issuing bonds guaranteed by eurozone member countries with solid credit ratings.
The rest of the day is spent reading and revising research manuscripts or writing grant applications to raise funds for my research.
To help finance it, it has been granted permission to raise tariffs by an annual 25% this year, next year and in 2012, having already almost doubled them over the previous five years.
Postdocs often receive grant money to raise their salaries to an acceptable level, "but it is not competitive with western countries, so there is a continuous drain of Czech postdocs to the west and across the Atlantic".
The contract contained standard language requiring Edwards to recognize all pre-existing Spanish and Mexican land titles in his grant area, to raise a militia to protect the settlers in the area, and to allow the state land commissioner to certify all deeds awarded.
The Connecticut Committee of Correspondence acted on this information; money was "borrowed" from the provincial coffers and recruiters were sent into northwestern Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and the New Hampshire Grants (now Vermont) to raise volunteers for an attack on the fort.
