Leonardo DiCaprio starring in a Martin Scorsese film practically guarantees awards season attention.
The Scorsese movie, based on the true story of a corrupt stockbroker, is a guaranteed awards contender with strong chances of slipping into the Best Picture race.
The announcement is part of a flurry of loan guarantees awarded by the Energy Department in recent days.
The Vogtle expansion is also backed by $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees awarded by the Obama administration.
Under terms of the loan guarantees, awarded by the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, the carrier needs to have $1 billion in cash on hand and to comply with several other requirements.
The airline owes $140 million on a package of loan guarantees awarded by the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board, which was created by Congress after the September 2001 attacks to oversee $10 billion in loan guarantees to the struggling industry.
Its traditional approach to "economic development" - a costly grab bag of handouts, tax breaks, giveaways and debt guarantees awarded to specific private projects - has reached the point of diminishing returns.
In general, the American Airlines calendar opens 331 days in advance of a given award flight; however, there is no guarantee that awards seats for the flight you want will be available exactly when the calendar opens.
Applicants must meet certain government criteria, though this doesn't guarantee an award, because individual universities will prioritise according to a range of factors.
Lord Hutton, the chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association, criticised "simplistic" comparisons of the guaranteed prices awarded to nuclear plants and windfarms.
Of course, those at the top of Britain's companies, who enjoyed a 55% leap in their rewards last year to an average of £4.5m, won't suffer: the system for determining their incomes is almost guaranteed to award them a sizeable increase.
